The North Carolina Bus Owners’ Association, in convention here this week, made plans to try to get the general assembly to pass a law regulating operation of busses. Among the provisions of the bill which the association will ask the general assembly to pass are the following chief points.
1. Provide for granting certificates by the state corporation commission without discrimination to all operators of motor busses now operating in good faith.
2. The commission be empowered to refuse a certificate to any further applicant if it be shown he intends to parallel another bus operator’s route.
3. Any new applicant must show that operation by him of bus lines would be for the public convenience and necessity.
4. License tax to be on a seat-mile basis for passenger busses; on a ton-mile basis for package and freight carriers.
5. When certificate is granted, operator of bus will be required to furnish the public service in accordance with dependable schedules.
6. Operator will be required to furnish indemnity insurance as a protection to the public.
Elected officers and directors and selected Wrightsville Beach as the next meeting place. The association will hold its convention the second Monday in July 1925. L.F. Bernard of Greensboro was chosen president of the organization. The three vice presidents are A.B. Bailes, Goldsboro; Harvey Hester, Asheville; and J.M. Wright, Gastonia. L.E. Scholl, Greensboro, was made secretary-treasurer.
Six directors were chosen: M.E. Hart, Raleigh; T.C. Caudill, North Wilkesboro; W.A. Averett, Oxford; E.M. Holt, Greensboro Guy Carpenter, Gastonia; and S.T. Gresham, Fayetteville.
From the front page of the Oxford Ledger, Friday, July 18, 1924
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