Dropped Cyanide Off Vehicle : £60 Fines
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THE driver of a vehicle which lost throe drums of potassium cyanide while travelling through Ashby Parva, Leicestershire, was fined £20 at Lutterworth magistrates court, last week.
George Cox, 49, of Oak Avenue, Leire, Leicestershire, pleaded guilty to carrying an insecure load and using a vehicle unsuitable for transporting poison. He was fined £10 for each offence—a total of 120.
His employers, Enderby Transport. Ltd., of Princess Road, Leicester, who pleaded guilty to permitting the offences, were fined £40 and ordered to pay 5 guineas costs.
Mr. A. H. Headley, for the Prosecution, said the "nightmare picture" started when a Mr. W. P. Nicholls who was driving through Ashby parva, at about 10 p.m. on January 11, found two drums in tbe roadway and one on the footpath. One of the drums had broken open and a trail of white powder had been deposited. Fortunately, Mr. Nicholls realized the danger of the situation and immediately notified the police.
The following morning Cox continued his journey to Kidderminster and, until he arrived there, was not aware of the accident.
'the vehicle had no sides, but only two raves about 14 in. deep. There was no back on the vehicle and the load was secured only by tarpaulins and rope.
ROAD TRANSPORT TOO CHEAP
ROAD transport is too cheap, and the INindustry works its employees too long, Mr. C. E. Jordan told members of the Wolverhampton Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association, at Dudley last week.
Existing transport costs were often less than the cash discount on the goods carried, he said. "I do not think that in 1960 lorry drivers should work a 60-hour week. Now that there is a 42-hour week in the engineering industry, road transport might have to follow."
Of the proposal that an independent inquiry be held to examine parking and congestion problems, Mr. Jordan said that it should be headed by Lord Birkett and include a top-ranking accountant. It should not include a politician, members of transport associations or anyone "with an axe to grind." Welcoming the proposals in the Guillebaud report, Mr. Jordan said that as a result it was likely that the railways would have to be made to pay for themselves.
CRITICISM SILENCED
THOSE people who had for years criticized the supposed amount of empty running performed by C-licence operators had been silent since the publication of the survey of C-licensed vehicles by the Traders' Road Transport Association, said Mr. H. R. Featherstone, assistant national secretary, at Boston on
Monday. •