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No More "A" Lorries for Reader Bros.
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THE application by Reader Bros., Ltd., Hull, for six A-licence vehicles has been refused by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority in a reserved decision. Reader's wanted the vehicles to help them to cope with fruit traffic to and from the port. The hearing lasted nine days.
Their application to transfer four contract-A vehicles to B licence was approved, with the conditions: "Collection and delivery of fruit and vegetables within a radius of 15 miles of Hull, principally in connection with the licenSees' and their associated companies' trunk. services to wholesale markets.7 There was also the addition: "Goods for R. Silcock and Sons, Ltd., as required, subject to the surrender of the A contract."
" SILENT " VEHICLE CHECKS IN THE MIDLANDS
AWARNING to operators that Ministry of Transport inspectors were pursuing. their " silent " checks on drivers' hours, was given in Wolverhampton, last week, by Mr. L. Patrick, Midland divisional secretary of the Traders' Road Transport Association. He said a " silent " check in the Potteries had recently resulted in 73 prosecutions.
These checks involved noting the registration number of a vehicle at a specific time and place, and later comparing this with log sheets. One of the most frequent causes of prosecutions was the driver whodecided to return home for the night when his hours had expired. The Ministry expected employers to check that this was not being done.
Operators were also expected to make compliance of the law a condition of employment and to give written and verbal warnings to their drivers about hours. However, drivers were sometimes being fined more heavily than their employers—in the past the owner of the vehicle was invariably punished more.
ENGINEER CONDEMNS LOW SPENDING ON ROADS THE amount of money taken from the British road user in direct and indirect taxation is the highest in Europe, yet the proportional expenditure on roads is the lowest. This was pointed out last week by Mr. John L. Beckett, Leicester city engineer and surveyor, in his presidential address to the conference of the Institution of Municipal Engineers.
He said receipts from taxation on motor vehicles in Britain exceeded that • of France and Western Germany combined, but we spent less than half of either of those two countrieson our roads.
A good start had been made in certain counties, but some urban sections were ,urgently in need of improvements_ Because of higher land values and the difficulties in acquiring property, an improvement in an urban area might be many times more costly than work in the open country, but it seemed the Minister of Transport was bearing this in mind.