952 Survey Results Made Known
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IFORMATION was published last week about the results of a sample vey of road goods transport carried by the Ministry of Transport in itember, 1952. The survey covered :r 7,000 vehicles.
Jp to a third of the ancillary vehicles e engaged in carrying food and ceries, about a quarter of the iium-weight C-licence vehicles and rly a third of those with B licences e carrying goods in connection with !ding. Over a quarter of the hum-weight B-licence vehicles were isporting coal and coke. Iron, steel, :hinery and builders' materials and Mies featured largely among the Is carried by heavy Aand C-licence cies and those of the Road Haulage eutive.
the week covered by the survey, vas estimated that the country's Is vehicles covered about 220m. s and carried 18m. tons. It was assessed that 75 per cent. of the total mileage and nearly 60 per cent, of the tonnage carried was performed by ancillary vehicles. Nearly 10 per cent. of the tonnage was carried by Stateowned vehicles.
Mileage run by vehicles loaded to over 50 per cent, of capacity was about three-quarters of the total mileage for the largest R.H.E. vehicles, over a half for the largest Aand C-licence vehicles and under a third in the case of the smallest C-licence vehicles. The proportion of empty running varied between a fifth for the largest R.H.E. vehicles and the smallest C-licence vehicles, and about two-fifths for the largest Aand B-licence vehicles.
The average length of haul was about 20 miles, but nearly 2m. tons were carried on loads of more than 40 miles. About half this tonnage was in ancillary vehicles.