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C-licence Transport Pays its Way
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In Delivering Foodstuffs, Aplin and Barrett, Ltd., Demand that Their Fleet Shall Compete Successfully with Public Transport
pOLITICIANS and others who seem to believe that traders run their own vehicles out of caprice or prejudice, would do well to study the transport organization of Aplin and Barrett, Ltd. In it they would find a minimum number of vehicles doing a maximum amount of work, distributing foodstuffs from factories and warehouses to some 100 depots spread over an area from Glasgow in the north to Truro in the south, and from King's Lynn in the east to Aberystwith in the west, and delivering from the depots to retailers.
They would find a Clicence fleet which operates in keen competition with publicly owned road and rail services, and is used only for that work which it can do more cheaply or satisfactorily than can other agencies. The transport organization, they would discover, is entirely ancillary to the company's business, but is run as a commercial undertaking that must pay its way.
For this purpose, a standard schedule of rates per ton has been laid down for traffic delivered from the main factory at Yeovil and the warehouse at Battersea, London, and an appropriate charge for transport is made to any of the 20 subsidiaries of Aplin and Barrett, Ltd. Depot managers are charged for their transport according to the use which they make of it, but a flat rate per mile is levied for tyres.
If a special journey becomes necessary, a price for it is fixed and is compared with railway and road haulage rates. If public transport is found to be cheaper and as satisfactory, it is used. Everyone who may be able to take advantage of the special service is notified in advance, so that the fullest use may be made of it.