Dock Delays : Extra Vehicles Refused
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NIVHEN John McNeil and Sons
(Haulage Contractors), Ltd.. Glasgow, applied to the Scottish Licensing Authority last week to add three vehicles to their fleet, it was stated that they needed extra lorries because of long delays at Glasgow docks.
The Licensing Authority, however, refused the application, saying that he did not understand how more vehicles would solve the difficulties. Additional lorries, he thought, would only add to the congestion.
Mr. L. Stokoe, secretary of the Scottish Area of the Road Haulage Association, supporting the application, said that all area members had complained at various times about dock delays. Sometimes vehicles were called to the docks at 8 a.m. and left at 5 p.m. without doing any work.
He believed that such occurrences arose from an insufficiency of labour and the decontrol of the docks.
Mr. James Farquhar, superintendent of the Smillie Depot, Clyde Group, British Road Services, thought that dock delays were caused by deficiencies withinthe dock organization.
IS EMPLOYER LIABLE FOR UNKNOWN OFFENCE? rAN an employer be convicted for permitting an offence if he did not know one had been committed? This question was put to Nottingham magistrates last week by Mr. A. C. G. Rothera, who was defending Joseph Chambers, 25 Watson Avenue, Nottingham, who was summoned for allowing an employee to carry an excess weight on a lorry.
Mr. Rothera said that Chambers knew nothing about the offence. The legal profession had been waiting a long time for an answer to the question which arose in such cases.
The magistrates dismissed the summons against Chambers. The employee was fined £3.
MINISTER TO OPEN MIDLAND RED'S WORKSHOPS THE Minister of Transport, Mr.
J. A. Boyd-Carpenter, is expected to open the new central workshops of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., in Carlyle Road, Edgbaston, on November 25. The ceremony coincides with the jubilee of the company.
The opening of the workshops will mark the completion of a £250,000 reconstruction and extension scheme for the centralization of major maintenance work and bus construction.
BILL INCLUDES FREE TRAVEL DOWERS to provide free "travelling " facilities for aged persons" are asked for in a new Bill which Leicester Corporation have promoted. It is expected soon to go before Parliament for approval.
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