Rates Decision Deferred
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NO new recommendations on road haulage rates will now be made until after the Budget on April 3. It had been thought that a rise might be recommended by the R.H.A. rates committee when it met last week, but at the meeting the committee decided to adjourn until a time when full account could be taken of such things as the new rating assessments, the new scales of national insurance payments and, of course, any changes in members' costs arising from the Budget.
Since the last increase of 71 per cent in haulage rates was recommended in January. 1962, wages have risen and there have been increases in the costs of fuel, Is res, overheads and vehicle maintenance. It was pointed out by the committee that the only immediate means of reducing any part of these would be through the improved productivity that it is hoped to obtain from the current turn-round campaign.