One-road-one-van Idea for Retail Deliveries
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T RADERS' organizations in the 1 North Midland region (Lincs., Notts., Derby, Leicester and Northants.) have been asked by the Regional Transport Commissioner, Mr. J. H. Stirk, to form local rationalization schemes for household deliveries.
Mr. Stirk suggests that all trading organizations should call meetings in their own localities with a view to getting a suitable plan operating by the beginning of March. He states that his main object is to secure economy of transport, vehicles, tyres and manpower in an all-embracing scheme, which does not apply. to the retail trade alone.
. His suggestions include a pooling of vehicles for'a common delivery fleet for a number of shops in the same area; a zoning of areas and restriction of customers who want deliveries; provision
of a definite, radius for shot, deliveries; restricted days for deliveries of certain goods, such as groceries, "to one day a week, and greengroceries, fish and meat to two days a week.
Mr. Stirk makes it clear that the traders must take the initiative in their own areas, and he' considers a common management committee might be set up in each locality to which all traders would contribute, according . to their deliveries. It might be satisfactory, he adds, to arrange a less-drastic pooling in some cases, if a particular road, or area, was allocated to an individual retailer—a kind of one-road-one-van arrangement.
The whole field of house-to-house deliveries is to be covered, but for the present, it is understood that deliveries of _milk and bread are deferred, because special investigations are in hand.