Hauliers Fined £267: Records Offences
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FINES totalling £267 were imposed on a West Ardsley haulage company, Peter Slater, Ltd., at Morley, last week, on 89 offences covering failure to cause curt ent records of hours worked to be kept, employing drivers without having at least 10 consecutive hours of rest in 24 hours, and overloading vehicles. Eighty-four other offences were taken into consideration.
The company, who pleaded guilty, were also ordered to pay 152 10s. advocate's fee. Seventeen of the company's drivers were fined a total of 144 on 44 offences of failing to keep current records.
Mr. D. Kenney, defending, said the fact that four drivers had not had their full rest was because of long delays in the Pennines. Referring to the failure to keep correct records, he pointed out that it was sometimes difficult to read the drivers' figures.
In the cases of overloading, he said the authorized weights fluctuated from time to time, and the loads carried by the company's lorries, whilst not legal at the time of the offence, would be legal today, MORE DEMANDS FOR LEYLANDS
SIXTY Tiger Cub chassis have been ordered from Leyland Motors, Ltd., by the Ulster Transport Authority. Thd bodies will be built in the U.T.A. workshops at Belfast. They will be of lightalloy construction and will seat 42-44 passengers.
Leyland have gained an order from Oslo in the face of severe Scandinavian and German competition. Fifteen Worldmasters are to he supplied for service in the city. The purchasing company, A/S Oslo Sporveier. were one of the first Continental operators to put the Leyland 125 b.h.p. underfloor engine into service, and they now have more than 50 buses fitted with eneines of this make.
The municipal undertakings of Maidstone, Lytham St. Annes, Widnes, Southport, Stockton, Southend and Leigh have ordered Titan doubledeckers.