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THE Accident Offices Association has / accepted the principle that operators of A-licence vehicles confined within a 25-mile radius under the Transport Act will in future be charged the same rate of insurance as B-licensees. The alteration Will take place from the next renewal date, or from the date when new business is placed, subject to any special agreement.
This concession has been obtained by the Road Haulage Association. At the Association's Scarborough conference last year, members urged that the insurance companies should give Aand B-licence holders similar rates to those granted to C-licensees.
The R.H.A. is investigating the possibility of obtaining further concessions
R.H.A. RECOMMENDS 71. PER CENT. RISE
LAST week the national rates comL4mittee of the Road Haulage Association withdrew its recommendation, made in December, that rates should be increased by 5 per cent., and substituted a figure of 7,Ie per cent. Since the earlier suggestion was made, the prices of tyres, fuel and oil have risen.
The new advance is intended to cover increases in costs of operation since last May, when the R.H.A. recommended members to raise their rates by 10 per cent. At that time the Road Haulage Executive advanced its charges by 7i per cent. and raised them again on January 29 by 10 per cent.
COVENTRY FACES £57,000 LOSS
Fwith an estimated deficit of £57,000 at the end of the present financial year, Coventry Transport Committee called a special meeting this week to consider the financial position of the bus undertaking.
The general manager of the transport department has been asked to consider various suggestions and will report on them at a committee meeting in May.
R.H.A. CONFERENCE PLANS
RESOLUT1ONS from areas will be considered at three sessions at the Road Haulage Association's annual conference at Torquay from October 17-19. One session will take place during the morning of October 17 and the other two on October 18. At a meeting on October 19 the national council will consider recommendations from the conference.
GLACIER EXPORT CHANGE
THE Glacier Metal Co.; Ltd., Alper' ton, Middlesex, will, after May 9, handle all its exports directly or through local agents or appointed local distributors. The present arrangements, under which Specialloid, Ltd., through its representative, H. A. Riedl, Ltd., acts for Glacier in some export markets, will then end.
The Transport (Amendment) Rill passed through the report stage in the House of Lords on Tuesday.