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Efforts to be Made NAORE is being done to help to Improve Drivers' 1in the feeding and accom
Comfort modation of drivers. In a
notice,, from the Ministry of Labour it is pointed out that, at the request of the Road Haulage central Wages Board, a Road Transport Catering and Accommodation Committee has been set up by the Employers' and Workers' organizations to compile a national directory of establishments providing food and accommodation for road-transport workers, the Joint Secretaries being Mr. G. W. Quick Smith and Mr. H. R. Nicholas, Room 350, Coastal Chambers, 15, Elizabeth Street, London, S.W.1. The new committee has also notified us that forms of application for registration in the directory have been posted to all transport cafés, known to be classified as category " B " Catering Establishments, and it is hoped to publish in October the first edition of the directory. Café proprietors catering for road-transport workers who do not receive a form' within the next few days should write to the secretaries. Drivers also should try to persuade caterers to register. GOOD psychology runs counter to class segregation, although there are occasions when the grading of individuals into groups for specific purposes offers a solution of troublesome problems. That is why we think there is the germ of a good idea in a plan put forward by Mr. A. Drysdale Wilson, M.I.A.E., in a paper he mad recently before the Birminghambranch of the Industrial' Transport Association. His scheme is to divide drivers into three groups according to ability, and to attach a distinctive mark to each vehicle, indicating into which group the man at the wheel falls. In the first group would be all competent drivers with accident-free records. The second group would coniprise those who have passed their test, but have not done six months driving after that. Included, too, in this class would be those who, by their behaviour in charge of a vehicle, their accident record, or for some other legitimate reason had been degraded from the first class. Thethird group would include only those who are termed learner-drivers. Thus only first-class drivers would control heavy vehicles. Novel Plan to Upgrade Drivers by
Ability Queueing for Cabs WE understand that last will Stop Racket at TY Sunday experiments in Stations queueing for taxicabs took place at a certain London terminus. Hitherto there has been much congestion and it was often extremely difficult to obtain a cab without the services of a porter, so that those people without luggage were at a disadvantage. There were also complaints that drivers were apt to pick and choose amengst would-be passengers, some even adopting the illegal procedure of bargaining for larger sums than would appear eventually on the meter.
London Transport 1 'ONDON TRANSPORT is Exposes Inhuman Bus1-"seeking the widest pub
ticket Hoax . licity for the exposure of a cruel hoax that is now being played on relatives of prisoners of war. Recently, the Board has received parcels of used bus tickets from prisoners' relatives, accomeanied by a letter stating that the writer has been informed that, on receipt of 1,000 bus tickets, all bearing a figure 7 in the serial number, London Transport will send a parcel to a prisoner of war. No such scheme exists, the only possible Use for cancelled bus tickets being as salvage, and the public should put them into the receptacles provided on the buses for thi'S purpose. . A further vital aspect of the matter is that children collecting the tickets in the road run a very big risk of serious injug.
Tax on Tread Plates DEFERENCE was 'made in Removed Last 1-our issue dated August 21
January to the point that, as a result
of representations by the S.M.M. and T., the authorities had decided that non-slip tread plates on p.s. vehicles should not be chargeable with Purchase Tax. In this connection, Mr, J. F. Heard, 54, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton& Staffs, has written to say that, after numerous appeals to the Customs and Excise, he received a letter dated January 14, 1942, to the effect that the Pneu Strip treads and nosings distributed by him to p.s.v. operators would not be subject to tax, so apparently the S.M.M. and T. was forestalled by slame monThs.