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B.R. Traffic Survey
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MEMBERS of the Road Haulage Association are being asked to cooperate in a market research project sponsored by the British Railways Board, the object being to obtain information on the types of equipment and service most likely to encourage hauliers to use liner trains. B.R. has commissioned Martech Consultants Ltd. to conduct a comprehensive survey among operators on the trunk routes linking London, Manchester, Glasgow and Liverpool.
The research is aimed at discovering the amount of goods traffic on road trunk routes which might suitably be subcontracted to the railways for carriage by liner train. The present method of carriage and the points of origin and destination of the traffic will probably be required but it is stated that this information would be regarded as confidential to the consultants. Only general information on the pattern of road haulage as a whole over these routes would be passed on to British Railways.
R.H.A.—Union Talks
NEXT Monday, April 6, has been set as the provisional date for the first of a series of formal discussions between the Road Haulage Association and three transport unions on haulage pay and conditions of employment. The date is, at the time of writing, not firmly fixed because Mr. Alex Kitson, secretary of the Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union (formerly the Scottish Horse and Motormen's Association) may not be available on that day.
The talks result mainly from persistent attempts by the Scottish union to negotiate—especially on overtime rates— outside the framework of the Road Haulage Wages Council. Now the R.H.A. has agreed to meet the Scottish union, the Transport and General Workers' Union and the United Road Transport Workers' Union.
It is likely that the R.H.A. representatives will be led by Mr. N. T. O'Reilly, chairman of the employers' panel, since these talks have no direct connection with the study group on wages and conditions which the R.H.A. (as reported in The Commercial Motor of February 7) set up some long time ago. Members of this study group are Mr. I. P. Wells (chairman), Mr. H. F. Capon, Mr. R. S. Heaton, Mr. T. J. E. Price, Mr. E. J. Shaw, Mr. J. A. B. Stimpson, Mr. P. H. R. Turner, Mr. A. R. Butt, Mr. J. G. Russell, Mr. R. A. Edwards and Mr. A. Dunn. This group has been asked to report soon to the executive and national council, but its findings are at present quite separate from the latest R.H.A.-union discussions.
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