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'Whitehall zombies'
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• "This law will be an ass", Mr. Arthur Lainson, chairman, told the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association's a.g.m. in London yesterday. Speaking of the changes in limits on drivers' hours proposed in the Transport Bill, still before Parliament, he continued: "A pack of Whitehall zombies is creating new limits claimed to be in the interests of road safety and/or—they themselves seem uncertain—modern social needs.
"The truth is that neither safety nor social conditions will be improved; on the contrary, there is positive evidence that in both cases the opposite of the desired effect will result," he said. The PV0A's challenge of the basis of the hours cuts and the evidence it has produced were reported in CM August 23.
Mr. Lainson also criticized the move to
encourage PTAs and municipal bus undertakings to compete with express service, tour and private-hire operators. He said: -These authorities have monopoly control of bus services and, if they enter the competitive field, it is inevitable that they will seek to 'stay in the market' by giving preference over stage bus services in times of difficulty.
The annual report of the national council for the year 1967/68 stated that the fighting fund account was disappointing, although further contributions during 1968 had enabled its campaign to continue until now without a second call on members. It was encouraging that many non-members accepted the PVOA's leadership at this time of crisis and they must hope that these operators would wish to take full advantage of the PV0A umbrella by graduating to full membership.
The establishment of VOICE to bring together all free-enterprise operators in a united campaign against objectionable provisions of the Transport Bill is recorded, together with its death in infancy due to the shock sell-out of BET bus subsidiaries W the Transport Holding Company. However, the fight had gone on.
A special committee was being formed to deal with the regional aspects of the national problem created by the proposed transfer of London Transport to GLC control.