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•• •• • A warning has been given that • rises in haulage rates in the West • Midlands are likely to be greater than •
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• those in the rest of the country. A • • • spokesman for the RHA West Midlands • area said firms in the district had been • • hit riot only by the fivepence a gallon •• • increase in fuel in the mini-budget but • also by wage increases. • • Teesside's 70 road hauliers have in • creased their rates by two per cent. The • • Northern area chairman of the RHA, Mr. Frank Brown, comments: "I think • our customers have accepted it as in • evitable. The Prices and Incomes Board has said that we do not need to refer the rise to them because the higher rate has been made necessary by additional taxation."'