0 a business or a person involved in a business that transports goods by road --
1 a person or company that transports goods by road or railway as a business: --
Today, of course, when they are seeking to diminish the compensation of the road haulier, the expansionist background to their economic theory is conveniently forgotten.
It is not reasonable to give the haulier such an option.
The smaller private hauliers operating in this narrow 25 miles will rapidly be driven out of business altogether.
It would, therefore, be at a disadvantage as regards competition with the short haulier.
But what about the road haulier who is 55 or 60 years of age?
If the scheme is really to work, complete justice must be done to road hauliers.
Its competitors, the coach operators and road hauliers, can employ their men productively for a greater portion of the working time.
That damage is paid for not by the road haulier but by general taxation.
