Further Discussion on Clearing Houses
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AFTER an inconclusive discussion on clearing houses by the national executive committee of the Road Haulage Association last week, the matter is to be considered further by the executive, as well as by the clearing house group committee at their next meeting on May 28.
Last week's discussion ranged wide and dealt with the possible licensing of clearing houses. It arose on a motion concerning clearing houses that failed to honour their obligations and closed down, but began to operate almost at once under another trading style.
Area committees are to be asked what facilities members require for overnight parking in London. Efforts will then be made to find accommodation.
The lack of parking facilities for long-* distance vehicles in new towns is also causing concern. Government grants to local councils constructing new towns do not cover the provision of parking places, and planning authorities are reluctant to allow for them.
INTERIM MOTORWAY SIGN REPORT THE Anderson Committee, which is
studying signs for motorways, may make an interim report in the summer, Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, said in the House of Commons.
He added that there were plans to build motorways to link Bristol with London, Birmingham, Exeter and South Wales. It was also proposed to improve the direct London-Exeter route by a new road from London to west of Basingstoke.
Mr. Harold Watkins-on, Minister of Transport, stated in a written reply that difficulties had arisen in establishing an acceptable line for the Preston-Birmingham motorway. To enable work to begin as soon as possible, he had decided to sanction the scheme for the length from Preston to south of Stafford, and to have the remaining portion of the route reinvestigated as a matter of urgency.
Mr. J. S. Maclay, Scottish Secretary of State, intimated that a scheme had been .. initiated for a Tay road bridge.
VEHICLES OVERWORKED
rOMPLAINING that his special-A and B-licence vehicles were overworked,• „Mr. J. Wormald, Sowerby Bridge, applied to the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority last week to transfer two contract-A vehicles to his B licence. The contract customers supported the case.
Mr. P. Kenny, for Mr. Wormald, said that apart from the two special Aand B-licence vehicles there had been no change in his client's fleet for 30 years. A local parcels service was operated, and complaints of delays had been made by customers.
Mr. T. B. Atkinson, -.for the British Transport Commission, withdrew their objection when he was satisfied that there would be no abstraction of traffic fromrt
• them; and the application was granted. c2