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Milk Haulage Back to Free Enterprise
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By R. P. Miers, A N immediate problem arises for milk carriers as a result of the Transport Act, 1953. Since 1943 the collection of milk from farms and its delivery to depots or dairies have been rationalized by the Milk Marketing Board. Although the greater part of the work falls within the 25-mile radius, some of the 4,000 hauliers concerned were nationalized
and their functions taken over by the Road Haulage Executive.
When the vehicles concerned are returned to free enterprise, it is obviously desirable that the contract which at present exists between the Board and the R.H.E. should be transferred to the purchaser. The Milk Carriers' Group of the R.H.A. has already made a recommendation to the Road Haulage Disposal Board that an assurance on this point should be obtained wherever the sale takes place of vehicles engaged in the carriage of milk.
It is generally agreed that the work of the M.M.B. has helped in promoting the swift and economic collection of milk and delivery to first destination.
Obviously, there was no need for the interposition of a second national body and the R.H.E. have had little effect upon the structure created by the M.M.B. The Board would, in fact, have preferred that milk should have been added to the list of excluded traffics not subject to the 25-mile limit. This point was stressed strongly but unsuccessfully upon Mr. Alfred Barnes when he was Minister of Transport. It may be said that the M.M.B. will approve that part of the new Transport Act with which they are particularly concerned. They will welcome the complete return to free enterprise of the milk-carrying vehicle and in due course the abolition of the 25-mile limit.
Operators with tankers were
fortunately exempt from the restrictions of the 1947 Act. One point which interests them very much at the moment is the extent to which the British Transport Commission will elect to retain their tanker fleet. Hauliers will welcome the addition to their ranks of any transport units containing milk-carrying vehicles.