Temporary Adoption of Lime Rates ?
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ANew road haulage charges schedule for the carriage of lime has been presented to the Ministry of Agriculture by the British Agricultural Contractors' Association, the Road Haulage Association and the Road Haulage Executive, together with two other bodies. It is requested that the schedule be ternporarily adopted until new rates based on cost can be agreed upon.
The Ministry recently agreed to accept, for subsidy purposes, an increase in transport charges of 2 per cent, for journeys up to 40 miles and 3 per cent. over that distance.
B.A.C.A. is negotiating with the Ministry of Transport over road fund licences for water-carrying vehicles. "The Commercial Motor" is informed that in the different traffic areas of the country, there is no standard method of taxation for these machines, such as 13.A.C.A. wishes to obtain.
NO GLASGOW-CORBY SERVICE WHEN Highland Transport, Ltd., VV applied to the Scottish Licensing Authority recently to tun an express service between Glasgow and Corby, Northants, reference was made to the lame numbers of Lanarkshire workers taken south to work in England.
Mr. B. Grierson, personnel officer of Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., said that there were probably nearly 3,000 Scottish families in Corby.
The application was rejected on the ground of lack of detailed supporting evidence.