ABSTRACT
Provision has been made to add to the membership of the Tribunal for the hearing of particular cases whenever the Minister of Transport or the interests affected desire it. Two panels have been set up, one consisting of representatives of trading, labor, passenger and agricultural interests, and the other of representatives of the railway interests. Attempts to bring about the effective regulation and coordination of existing forms of national transport are almost sure to prove ineffectual so long as rail and road services are competitive and are under the control of different tribunals. The question of competition between road and rail has been the subject of investigation by a Royal Commission and by a committee representing rail and road interests. The latter inquiry, which resulted in Salter Report, is particularly apposite because it sought to determine the fair share of road expenditure that should be borne by commercial vehicles and to establish a fair basis of competition with the railways.
