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THE Road Haulage Association have been assured by the Ministry of Transport that if rationing continues beyond the present period, hauliers who have had to lay up vehicles on account of rationing will not be. penalized in their fuel allocations. This point emerged at the national council's meeting last week.
The council were also told that the machinery for liaison between the R.H.A. and the Regional Transport Commissioners and the appeal procedure for dealing with fuel-allocation claims were working.., well throughout the country. Relations with the Commissioners and their district officers were good.
There had been an improvement in the fuel situation, possibly brought about partly by a recession in trade and a reduction in traffic.
The council expressed concern at the favours being shown to the railways by the Government.
BUSES WITHDRAWN AFTER 25 YEARS
APETITION signed by 83 residents of the rural district of Hermon, Merionethshire, has been sent to Mr. T. W. Jones, M.P., calling urgent attention to their plight through Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., withdrawing the bus service between Dolgelly _and Hermon.
The petition points out that Crosville had served the area for 25 years. Noconsideration had, it says, been given to the lack of other transport facilities. The nearest train service was at DoIgelly, and the nearest bus points were now at Ganllwyd and Llanfachreth, both about three miles distant and five miles-or more from outlying homes.
Crosville's area manager had told DoIgelly Rural District Council that consideration would .be given to extending the Llanfachreth bus service to Hermon if certain road improvements were carried out.
DISPARITY AMONG COUNTIES .14AULIERS in Derbyshire were
I receiving about 40 per cent. of their normal fuel supplies, those in Nottinghamshire abouthalf, and Lincolnshire and Leicestershire operators 60 per cent., Mr. Boyd Bowman, secretary of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses, said last week.
" There is no reason for this disparity," he declared. He would raise the matter at the next meeting of the Ministry. of Transport's standing joint committee on rationing, of which he is a member.
Mr. J. E. Kirby, chairman of the East Midland Area of the -Conference, said the general position was that about one in 10 workers had been stood off, one in four was on short time and the • remainder on a basic 44-hour week