Passing Comments Much Good Work WHAT will be 'the eventual
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Performed by Clear17 position of the Clearing ing Houses . . . . Houses? Despite the fact that
a few minor concerns of this nature earned a, bad name, the large majority is performing a most useful service, particularly in connection with the smaller hauliers and thd, ownerdrivers. We understand that they found loads for something like 10,000 vehicles, and this alone proves their value. Tlieir work relieved many operators of office routine which' might have involved time and expense which Could ill be spared in view of their other commitments,
Commercial-vehicle Q0.)1E; operators of commer Drivers Must Keep cial vehicles appear to take Log Sheets . . the view that log sheets are not required for their drivers if, the vehicles be engaged on work for Government Departments, Consequently, they refuse to supply these sheets to their drivers and place the latter in the awkward position that if they be challenged by the police they have nothing to show as to their times of working and so forth. We know of no regulations exempting users of commercial vehicles from instructing their drivers -to keep their logs and then filing these periodically, as was normally the rase. Post-war Chances for 0.ME interesting points con
Farming implement cerning the employment of Contractors . . . mechanized equipment in farming were made recently by Mr. G. H. Bates, Principal of the Staffordshire Farm Institute, before the Royal Society of Arts. He said that one of the most popular suggestions is that of the co-operative use of implements, but it is difficult to sec how this can be practicable. The fact that implements are required at about the same time by everyone rules out this policy. The most feasible method seems to be that farmers should possess individually those implements and appliances which are essential at certain times on every farm: There will, however, still be a place for the agricultural contractor, who is proving his worth in the present campaign, and there is every reason why there should be an extenSion of his services after the war. He can possess a variety of equipment to suit differing conditions and thus give more efficient service than the farmer is able to perform himself, particularly in the case of heavy tackle. The contractor also usually understands, the engineering side better than the average farmer, but he should be licensed.
Road Transport's fig EFERENCE has been Share in U.S.A. ProIX made on several occasions
to the great use of road trans.
port in U.S.A. Here area few more examples. In 741 war plants in Michigan, 65 per cent. of incoming and 69 per cent. of outgoing freight travel by lorry. One company manufacturing automatic cannon comprising 127 parts produces only three of these itself, most of the others arriving by road. Heads for aero engines are brought 600 miles from Ohio to Connecticut in 22 hours. It is usually found that deliveries are made in half to onethird the time occupied by other available methods. The American railways now themselves own 80,000 lorries, an increase of 800 per cent, in 10 years.