S.T.R. Suggests Suitable Rates Bases A KEENLY interested audience heard S.T.R.
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present figures which he. recommended should serve as a practical basis for a rates structure, when he addressed a meeting of A.R.O. members at Wantage on Tuesday of last e eek. The meeting was a small One, as perhaps was only to oe expected, having in mind the nature of the district, but those present made up in interest what they lacked in num hers.
There was a large number of questions and a keen discussion. Mr. Hedges, of Brightwalton, gave interest to the discussion when he said that ids method of getting at his overhead costs was to keep accurate records of his vehicle operating cost and to subtract that from his total expenditure. He treated the balance as establishment cost and spread it over his fleet of vehicles.
Another point raised was the difficulty of arriving at a rate for a particular job, especially in reference to classes of s,york where the vehicle might do only a 'few miles a day on one job and a considerable mileage the next day on another. This gave S.T.R. opportunity for explaining his time and mileage method of assessing rates for work of that description. Arising out of it was a further question as to how to measure mileage, it being pointed out that differences of opinion some times arose. S.T.R. referred to the " crow-11y mileage " method of assess
ing rates, which, he said, was likely to he useful in that connection.
Another matter discussed was that of the difference in actual values between high and low-priced vehicles, and in this discussion reference was made to the series of articles which S.T.R. has just concluded in " Solving the Problems of the ,Carrier," in The Commercial Motor.
The meeting was presided over by Mr. J. NV. Hescroff, secretary of the Southern Area of A.R.O., and there were also present, amongst others, Major W. If. Borwick, Mr. G. Hedges, Mr. W. J. Sayers and Mr. J. Bates.