SMALLS 'EMBARRASS " THE
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ASTATEMENT by a Road Haulage Executive district manager's office that smalls were an embarrassment, was quoted by Mr. C. E. Jordan, chairman of the transport committee of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, at A meeting of the Chamber's council on Monday. Figures were quoted to show that about 90 per cent. of the consign-ments from Midland concerns were in the 3-cwt. to 1-ton category.
Referring to his own group of companies, Mr. Jordan said that before the war, private hauliers charged £1 a ton for certain traffic, but the price had now risen to £5 a ton. In many instances road haulage was now more expensive than rail transport.
Mr. Jordan suggested that the British Transport Commission would like a 'free hand to direct road traffic to the railways. He declared that any attempt to remove charges for smalls traffic from the jurisdiction of the Tranport Tribunal would be resisted.
lie declared that the nationalization of road haulage was not a success. Private enterprise offered better service.