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GOVERNMENT BLUNDERS 'HARM INDUSTRY.
The statement that in this country we have never utilized to the full the immense services which road transport offered, because we had from the beginning made some incredible blunders with regard to policy, was made by Mr. C. Boyd Bowman. when he addressed Dumfries Rotary Club, last week. Our nation had been denied the best, the most efficient and the most economical road transport which it needed.
From the first days of road transport we had never taken the trouble to build for ourselves roads adequate for the increased demands put upon them. Forty years of tinkering had not increased the road mileage of this country by as much as three per cent. In recent years there had been built up a mass of legislation which had restricted and repressed the road transport industry.
Parcel Carriers' Move for Unity.
Parcel carriers in South-West Lancashire who are organized in the West Lancashire and Wirral Committee of the National Conference of Express Carriers have decided to seek representation on the Conference of Merseyside Road Transport Organisations. This Conference was founded about 12 months ago, of representatives of the Liverpool Car and Motor Owners' Association, the C.M.U.A. and the A.R.O. Its function is to straighten out difficulties in the matters of rates and service.
Passenger Transport Wages in Doncaster.
We learn that a meeting was held in Leeds, last week, in connection with negotiations as to the wages ( f employees of certain passenger members of A.R.O. in the Doncaster district. These negotiations were initiated under Section 93 of the Road Traffic Act. Mr. Dubery, Ministry of Labour A38
conciliation officer, presided at the meeting, which was attended by representatives of the operators and by the area passenger secretary for the Transport and General Workers' Union. It is understood that the employers' representatives tabled certain proposals, which the secretary undertook to place before his committee.
Unfair Responsibility on Licensees.
A letter has been sent to the Minister of Transport, on behalf of the associates' committee of the B.R.F., asking that Section 16 of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1993, should be amended to make some provision for allotting the responsibility between the licensee and his employee in respect of the obligation to keep records.
Vehicle Groups—,.How Do We Stand?
On behalf of the associates' committee of the B.R.F., a letter has been written to the Minister of Transport, urging him to expedite the official approval of shadow groups, which have already been formed under his scheme, and pointing out the impossibility cf making detailed and efficient plans inside the groups until the organizers are in a position to know how many vehicles would be earmarked. EAST MIDLAND A.R.O. INCREASES IN STRENGTH.
Mr. J. L. Kinder, national organizer of A.R.O., recently addressed a large gathering of operators at Bletchley, presided over by Mr. E. W. Daniels. So impressed were the operators with Mr. Kinder's remarks and with the Association's activities, both nationally and locally, that a new sub-area was immediately formed, and some 25 operators have recently joined the Association from the Bletchley Subarea.
Following upon this meeting, Mr. J. L. Kinder was further called upon to give an address at Leighton Buzzard and chose as his subject "The Future of the Road Transport Industry." The meeting was presided over by Mr. A. C. Biggs and a committee was established which will work in conjunction with the Bletchley Sub-area. and the Aylesbury Sub-area.
New members are joining the Association at a very satisfactory rate.
Bad Surface Conditions at Shap. .
Complaints regarding the state of road A6 in the Kendal-Penrith (Shap) section were voiced at a recent meeting of the C.M.U.A. South-East Lanes Area. The Post Office authorities were stated to be laying cables in that district and it was said the road was not being replaced in a satisfactory condition for transport vehicles.
Communications have been made to the C.M.U.A. headquarters, with a view to the situation being brought to
the notice of the responsible authorities.
Yorks A.R.O.'s Finance Chairman.
Mr. E. W. Morris, of Leeds, managing director of Film Transport Services, Ltd., was last week elected chairman of the finance committee of the Yorkshire Area of A.R.O. Mr. Morris is a member of A.R.O.'s National Council.