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Transport's incubus
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• A period of calm to help the bus industry establish a new equilibrium was a plea made on Tuesday by Mr C. T. Dabell, chairman of the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association, to the new Government. The industry did need changes, but of an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary nature, he commented in his address to the Association's annual general meeting. Perhaps the starting point was the acceptance of buses and coaches as the most economical users of Britain's crowded roads, and as an essential factor in tourism.
Mr Dabell stressed in particular the problems caused by the new law on drivers' hours, leading to reductions in bus services, with the travelling public, who were undoubtedly the losers, criticizing the bus operators rather than the doctrinaire Government which had been• responsible. Management had had to pull out all the stops to maintain the best possible services—the cost was in ulcers and coronaries.
"Another incubus in our midst is the RTITB," Mr Dabell stated. "We believe in training, but this bureaucratic organization is squandering our money," he said. He claimed that the Board barely recognized the existence of the smaller operator, and its officers often seemed to contradict one another, so confusing, rather than helping him.