The inactivity of the Ministry of Transport has become something of a bad joke. Worse, it is guilty of gross dereliction of duty by failing to produce plans for the proper co-ordination of transport 13 months after Labour won power, ind the chief responsibility is the Minister of Transport's, Mr. Tom Fraser. Of 211 the Ministers in Mr. Wilson's administration, he has signally failed to convince anyone - including the leaders of this Union - that he knows what he's about or where he is going. So far as the public is concerned he has had about as much impact as a flea on the back of a ten-ton diesel, We will lose no sleep if he goes = in fact the sooner the better. Instead of drive, we've had delays, Instead of more nationalisation of the country's transport, we've had private enterprise given a bigger stakes BRS even disposes its Meat Haulage section to a private concerns It has spent £84 million in buying into other road haulage concerns though Mr. Fraser won't tell us how much has gone into buying shares in
t ademenienieaend L henleeky slendlendendendendeedend tera S Loehoalamabr wheuleh aby elselendenduntenieesbsbenbendepi sieeheedpeieetenbenieal Companies running in opposition to its own services. Beeching and Hinton have come and gone = and we seem to be no nearer a policy of road and rail integration, Where we've had a progressive move like the introduction of liner trains which could lead to road-rail integration private enterprise has been allowed to cash in at the expense of the publiclyowned services.ee." ! From The Highway, official journal of the Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union of which Mr. Kitson is general secretary.