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Transport managers'
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pay 'appalling,
• The average salary paid to transport managers is slightly below £1500 per annum, or about 20 per cent below the average earnings of the drivers they control, says the National Guild of Transport Managers which has conducted a survey of conditions.
Announcing the opening of a campaign to obtain a minimum salary for all TMs, commensurate with their responsibilities, the Guild's general secretary, Mr F. P. Coult, said his national executive council were shocked at the appallingly low salaries currently being paid. "We believe," he continued, -that the Transport Act 1968, with the introduction of Transport Managers' Licences looming on the-horizon, requires all employers to take a careful look at the structure within their companies and ensure that transport managers are paid in accordance with the responsibility they now have to accept."
It was not intended, said Mr Coult, to mount a militant campaign, but his council hoped that organizations concerned would
be prepared to discuss the complex problem so that a framework of a proper graded salary structure could be set up for the future. They were determined, however, that any "minimum" salary should not also be interpreted as a "maximum" salary and that any so-called -fringe" benefits should not he in lieu of any part of an agreed salary.
TMC stays 'social'
• At its national meeting recently, the Transport Managers' Club agreed that its activities should remain entirely social, as they have been over the past 25 years.
Two new centres are expected to be formed in the course of the year—Southampton and Bristol /Bath.
At the recent meeting Mr S. A. Main, of Newcastle, was elected national chairman_