Local Drivers Gain from Agreement
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THE agreement which British Road Services have concluded to cover operation of heavy vehicles at 30 m.p.h. will benefit shunters and men working on local deliveries as well as longdistance drivers. It comes into force next month.
Drivers' working day will be cut by an hour, with a normal maximum of 10 hours, without loss of pay or lessening of the amount of work done within the day. This will be achieved by revising running schedules and, in the case of local-delivery men, by re-allocating duties.
A 15-per-cent, bonus will be added to basic rates.
SCOTS WORKS TOO COSTLY? L'IGURES submitted by motor manu facturers showing that it would be far more expensive to set up factories in Scotland than in England, have not been accepted by the Board of Trade, and are to be examined afresh. Mr. Reginald Maudling, President of the Board, gave this assurance last Friday to a delegation from the Scottish T.U.C.
"MAIN MI DANGER"
WHEN the Midland Federation of Road Safety Committees met in Leamington last week, Ald. J. D. Buckley, of Leamington, said that the main danger on the MI was from commercial vehicles. Delegates rejected a motion calling for a 65 m.p.h. limit.
LAND WANTED
--rHE Northern General Transport Co., Ltd,, are to negotiate with South Shields Corporation for land, in Anderson Street, on which to erect a central bus station.