Exempt these services from new lours limits' PVOA
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Essential services for factories, and services r isolated areas, for recreational, touring and ,rtain long-distance duties should be exemp
d from the full force of the new driving hours nits proposed under the Transport Act, says e Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association. le Association makes the request in a detailed emorandum, backed by actual cases, which has submitted to the Ministry of Transport. asks that these and other categories of ieration should be considered in framing gulations for the relaxation of drivers' hours iits: the Minister is empowered under secm 96 (10) of the Transport Act to make such gulations "to deal with cases of emergency, otherwise to meet a special need".
The Association has based its submissions public need and gives examples of the folming situations where it considers exemption )m the limits is needed: essential works services, involving an extended spreadover; isolated places which will be "cut off from civilization"; a second driver on long journeys: recreational trips, which require maximum time for skiing, angling. etc.; tourism; "straight-through" duties on stage carriages; long-distance services having to make connections; and amalgamation of rest days over a period. Most of the examples given are based on cases discussed at a meeting of Scottish p.s.v.
operators and the Ministry which was organ ized by the PVOA Scottish area.
Works services. Such services, says the Association, are provided for government departments and statutory bodies, whose work may require to be in remote places.
An example of this type of service is given as Shettleston (East Glasgow) to the Royal Naval Armament Depot, Coulport 128 miles north-west of Glasgow on Loch Long). The service is operated seven days a week under an express licence and has a spreadover time of 13 hours 15 minutes—from 05.45hr to 19.00hr.
There is no alternative means of transport, says the Association, other than private car.
Isolated places. These are towns that will virtually be cut off from all recreational and social contacts, by virtue of their geographic position, Campbell, Argyllshire, at the foot of the Kintyre Peninsula, is 94 miles by road from Oban, the nearest town of any size, 140 miles from Glasgow and 184 miles from Edinburgh.
An existing licensed day-excursion to Glasgow, allowing seven hours there, with nine hours travelling, will become illegal, if no exemption is granted.
Second driver. There are many journeys, where, because of the distance involved, a second driver should be allowed some exemption to travel on the vehicle.
The Corby-Glasgow service is one that is continued on page 41