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Still Trying to Set Up Rates Schedule
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FOLLOWING a meeting of their rates sub-committee on Wednesday, the long-distance hauliers' committee of the Road Haulage Association yesterday received a report on the sub-committee's efforts to try to establish recommended tonnage rates based partly on mileage between certain points. The work has been in progress for some time.
Reports were also received from members on arrangements that they had made to recognize extra effort by drivers under the general 30 m.p.h. speed limit. Some time ago the R.H.A. promised to give the unions evidence of such arrangement§ where it was found that the increase in the speed limit on heavy goods vehicles from 20 m.p.h. to 30 m.p.h. had increased the turnover of traffic.
Another report was on progress made in the preparation of the new edition of the directory of long-distance hauliers,