Haulage Director Supports .Drivers
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" I HAVE a good set of drivers and I will
I stick by them," a director of Westland Transport, Ltd., 51 Mason Street, West Bromwich, was said to have told officials when a case of a driver exceeding the 11-hour limit was reported to him.
The company were fined a total of £9, with £5 1 Is. special costs, by the Wednesbury magistrate last week for allowing a driver to work for more than 11 hours, and for failing to cause a current record to be kept: The driver was fined a total of £5.
It was stated that the driver had entered in his log that he had finished work at 7 p.m., but was seen in his vehicle at 8.41 p.m.
The director said that his men were paid £14 a week and £1 subsistence allowance. Mr, M. T. A. Mathews, prosecuting, stated that 'there had been a lack of supervision and failure by the company to see that their drivers were properly instructed, . .
Mr. Geoffrey Thornton, defending, said that, the driver had been to the Ford works at Dagenham, a journey which could be done in less than 11 hours. For some reason, the driver took 1+ hours longer.