Licensing as Usual During Emergency
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A CCORDING to the Ministry of r-1 Transport, licensing will carry on as normal during fuel rationing,. although the Licensing Authorities and Traffic Commissioners will no doubt have to devote part of their time to their duties as Road Transport Cornmissioners, The Licensing Authorities themselves have been as uncertain as anyone else of the immediate future.
It seems likely that applications for new services or increased tonnage will continue to be heard. It is thought that grants will still be made at once, where justified, irrespective of the availability of fuel.
C-LICENSEES ATTACKED
IF the fuel problem were to be tackled 1 seriously, operators who did not use their vehicles to the full must be " clamped down on," said Mr. T. D. Corpe at a dinner of the Institute of Traffic Administration in Bristol last week.
There were too many lorries tr.avelliag completely empty, he said. Companies should usc public transport facilities as much as possible. Ancillary users were the worst offenders, and he saw no reason why they should not have only the basic ration if they allowed their vehicles to run journeys carrying loads only one way.
Lord Merrivale, president of the Institute, said that the Institute were willing to co-operate with any local authority over plans to reduce congestion.
FUEL CONCESSION REBATES WITHDRAWN
D EBATES on the price of fuel IX delivered in bulk quantities now accord to a simple scale beginning at the consumption of 50,000 gallons a year. Previously there was a rebate on bulk deliveries as such and in certain cases a further concession was granted by suppliers in competition with others. These concessions no longer apply, except where current contracts exist. They were withdrawn last week.
Customers have been notified of the prices which have been revised.
NO FUEL TENDERS
TO ensure that big consumers of fuel will not change from one supplier to another, no tenders for the supply of oil fuel arc being submitted by the oil companies.
This was intimated at a meeting of Glasgow Transport Committee. Existing contracts will be continued and there will be no breaks in supplies.
OPPOSITION TO RESTRICTIONS A COMMITTEE of the road trans1-1 port section of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce is to object to the Minister of Transport about proposals to restrict traffic in the city centre. The proposals are designed to limit the period during which goods may be delivered to premises adjacent to a number of intersections.
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