Clicensees Must Keep Guard
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ADECLARATION that every trader operating a C-licence vehicle must remain on guard against renewed threats to his freedom is contained in the annual report of the London and Home Counties area of the Traders' Road Transport Association.
"Your committee have noticed with some concern increased apathy among members and non-members since the change of Government," says the report. " So long as the nationalized transport, partkularly the railway side, fails to pay its way, then any Government which is in power, regardless of party, has a duty to do what can properly be done to improve this position." it states.
The report continues; "There is little evidence of the slightest appreciation of the fact that neither the railway system nor the road System of the country can hope to run economically, efficiently or safely unless necessary capital expenditure is allowed. The country cannot live on capital without disastrous effects. The serious results of policy, or lack of policy, in these matters cannot be hidden indefinitely, and when they show up, as they are showing, inevitably there is a tendency to discover a scapegoat.
"The opponents of the C licence are not backward in pointing to the traders who operate their own vehicles as the cause of these ills and in suggesting that a restriction of the C licence would be the cure for everything. The suggestion is the more dangerous by reason of its apparent but deceptive simplicity."
There was another substantial
advance in area membership, the total for the year being 344. Great importance is ,being placed on the develinP ment of strong local sections as well as sn.b-areas within the territory covered by the area organization.