Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 463, sig. 110-4/311

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9a or other vehicle owners must be made available permanently or temporarily. The individual vehicle owners no longer have the right of free disposal of their vehicles since the beginning of the war, but on the other hand receive assistance in case of need by mediation of the Nbv. of their driver by vehicle owners of other economic sectors. In practice, the requirement of the head of Division VI means that in the future, even for a few days, when vehicles are being used, the driver will be required to use the vehicles, and that the Nbv will then use the relevant departments. Economic associations must negotiate on the vehicles to be supplied, on the one hand, and on the other. As, for example, Divisions VI and V, which are the first to be considered, are not well informed about the local conditions - which continue to change - in the individual places of the Protectorate, these posts can only give an opinion after questioning. This means that in the future the driver will no longer be able to make immediate use of the equipment for suddenly occurring transports or in the event of failure of other vehicles. On the other hand, the driver is well aware of the transport possibilities and needs of his district. He has long worked closely with the services and business associations and has no interest in taking away important vehicles for which he must provide replacement again or in exposing himself to a legitimate complaint. The driver must remain in a position to carry out additional transport tasks quickly and to encourage all vehicle owners to help each other, if necessary by forcibly ordering them on the basis of the Reichsleistungsgeset. Especially the food is dependent on the help of the rest of the economy to a large extent. For example, in addition to the vehicles running in the food sector, many vehicles from the transport companies and the rest of the economy are now used for the transport of vegetables.