Company Busmen's New Claim
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CLATMS for extra pay, shorter hours and longer holidays for 100,000 provincial company bus workers were discussed by the National Council for the Omnibus Industry, in London on Monday.
Other matters, including one-man operation, standing passengers, conditions relating to skilled maintenance workers and the definition of shifts for certain maintenance men, were also raised.
All these matters have been passed to a sub-committee for detailed attention, but The Commercial Motor was told on Tuesday that no date had been fixed for the committee to report back.
RAILWAY PLANS WELCOMED OVERNMENT plans to modernize
the railways were welcomed by members of the Traders' Road Transport Association, said Mr. K. C. Turner, president-elect and chairman of the East Midland Area, at the annual luncheon of the Area last week.
Referring to the committee on planning set up by the Minister of Transport, he said: "It is encouraging to see that it is composed of such able businessmen. I think this confirms the Government's intention to take a commercial decision on rail transport, rather than the ideological approach we have heard so much of, since the war."
SMALLS TO THE CONTINENT
FACILTTIES for the carriage of traffic to the Continent by air will be extended next month. A container service, to cater especially for smalls traffic, is to be introduced on May 3 by a newly formed company, Euro-freight, Mr. J. S. Probert, manager, Atlas Air Express (Atexo), Ltd., told The Commercial Motor on Monday.
This is an important development by Trukair, an organization operated jointly by Atlas Air Services, Ltd., and Air Charter, Ltd., who pioneered goods transport to the Continent by air.
B.T.C. REVENUE UP £4.7m. THE old-established Sheffield group of I fortunes have taken a turn for the better, Revenue from transport activities was £4.7m. higher in the first 12 weeks of this year than in the corresponding period of last year. It rose from £143.2m. to £148m. Rail freight receipts increased from £75.6m. to £76.5m.
London Transport's road passenger revenue rose from £11.9m. to £12.7m. The Commission's provincial and Scottish bus undertakings increased th&r receipts from £12m. to £12.3m.
GROUP CHANGES TITLE
rE old-established Sheffield group of hauliers, Direct Motor Services, Ltd., has changed its title to Sheffield Haulage and Storage, Ltd. This is thought to be more appropriate to modern conditions. The group was formed shortly after the 1914-1.8 war and has been consistently
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successful.