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Rates Up 5 Per Cent
O N Wednesday the Road Haulage Association recommended members to increase road haulage rates by 5 per cent with effect from June I. This decision of the RHA rates committee......
United Carriers • Expansion Netails Are Due Within The Next
week if or so of further acquisitions by United Carriers Ltd. of Wellingborough. The company—which has over 150 vehicles run by operating subsidiaries Frank Willis and Sons......
Budget Shock For Road Transport
By S. BUCKLEY, Assoc Inst T "1 THEREFORE propose a general increase of 50 per cent in all the rates on goods I vehicles and associated vehicles." In those brief, blunt words the......
Subsidizing The Railways' Peaking Of The 50 Per Cent...
excise taxation imposed in the Bruhn Mr. G. K. Newman, secretary-general 1 the Road Haulage Association, said Nottingham on Wednesday that "this extr ordinary impost" was, in......