R.H.A. to Recommend Higher Rates
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AN increase in haulage rates is likely to be recommended shortly by the Road Haulage Association. . This will take care of advances in costs which have occurred since May, 1957, when the Association last recommended a small increase in rates. It will take account particularly of the big new wage award, which is likely to be ratified by the Minister of Labour before the end of the year.
Last July the national executive of the R.H.A. instructed the rates and carriers' liability committee to assess the amount by which costs have risen. in.. the past three years, and to recommend a-general uplift iri charges.
The greatest increase in costs has been on account of wages. This item bears more heavily upon express carriers than general hauliers, because the number of employees per vehicle in the parcels business is 'greater than in any other section of the industry. It may be that