News of the Week Sugar-beet Rates in Lincolnshire
Page 16
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
READERS will no doubt recall a paragraph published in our issue dated August 1 relating to an interesting development in association procedure, whereby representatives of all hauliers' associations in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire and adjacent counties met together to discuss a subject of common interest, namely, rates for the haulage of sugar beet. The venue of the meeting was Lincoln, and S.T.R., "The Commercial Motor " Costs Expert, attended and addressed those present.
As the outcome of that meeting and subsequent proceedings, rates for the haulage of that traffic have been agreed and the following schedule has been issued under the joint auspices of the Scunthorpe Sub-Area of Associated Road Operators and the Lincolnshire Transport Association; operators in the districts concerned are strongly recom DUTIES OF THE REPAIRS ADVISER
LAST week, we referred to the LAST
of Mr. F. G. Smith as Repairs Adviser to the Ministry of War Transport. He will he prepared to receive queries not only from associations, but from individual operators or maintenance people in respect of their
d. difficulties, particularly as regards spare parts, machine tools and -hand tools. He is also undertaking a review of repair facilities, and will no doubt make recommendations to the Ministry as to how to deal with such matters.
STOLEN LOADS FEED THE " BLACK MARKETS"
" f T is clear to me that there is a big 1 underground organization behindthese thefts which, I think, are the main source of supply for the ' black markets,' " said Mr. W. Farnorth, secretary of the .C.M.U.A., in Man-. chester, when referring to the growing alarm among Lancashire haulage concerns about the loss of lorries and loads.
" Some of our merntiers," he added, " have lost large quantities of tobacco, eggs, textiles, cheese, etc.—some of the loads being worth thousands of pounds. In a few instances they have been recbvered, but most of the vehicles with their goods have disappeared. In the majority of cases, lorries are stolen at big wayside cafés, where drivers are in the habit of pulling up for a meat"