No Licence Suspens ton After Public Inquiry
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I-1 A WELL-KNOWN County Durham
haulage concern, N. Kindon and Sons, Ltd., Burn Road, West Hartlepool, made out a successful case when called to a public inquiry at West Hartlepool, on Monday, to show cause why B licences held by them should not be revoked or suspended.
Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, said that, although the concern were convicted on nine charges in April last year and on four contraventions of B-licence regulations last January, he was satisfied he need not now take further action.
"As far as it is humanly possible I have done everything that can be done to see that we abide by regulations," said a director, Mr. J. T. Kindon. "There was nothing wilful about the contravention."
The business, started by his father, the managing director, in 1940, had grown until they were now operating 15 vehicles.
It was stated that their last conviction involved 'loads of steel, which were carried to Blyth, well beyond the 25-mile radius of the company's licences.
Mr. Hanlon commented: "If a B licence with a limited radius is used for an A-licence journey, it obviously means that an " A" vehicle is released for other work. If you don't abide by regulations, you are going to cut your own throat. It cuts both ways."
Mr. Thomas Pickering, the company's transport manager, said that he now personally instructed each driver before any journey was undertaken. There was a four-way check before any vehicle could set out..
The journeys to Blyth by a B-licence lorry had been a mistake. Wrong loads had been put on lorries by a concern which had hired the vehicles on a block contract.
BUS DRIVERS TO GET SAFETY BONUSES
A LTHOUGH the National Joint PA Industrial Council for the municipal passenger transport industry have opposed the scheme, annual payments of £1 to 110 in recognition of safe driving are to be paid to drivers by Coventry Transport Department.
When a delegation from Coventry travelled to London last week to discuss the proposal with the council, they were refused a hearing and returned " thoroughly disgusted."
CH!. W. Spencer, vice-chairman of the transport committee, said that Coventry bus drivers deserved payment, as they covered three tithes as much mileage as other corporation drivers who already received bonuses.
B.R.S. 60-TON FERRY LOAD
A60-TON consignment of electrical switchgear arrived at Antwerp on Tuesday on seven British Road Services trailers. The traffic was collected from Manchester last Friday and was carried across the Channel by the Transport Ferry Service. It was destined for an oil refinery near Rotterdam.