Part turners rest offences
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TORBAY magistrates last week ordered seven part-time drivers employed by Wallace Arnold Tours (Devon) to pay fines and costs totalling £2,865 when they admitted a series of offences of taking insufficient rest.
David Gervois, prosecuting for the Western Traffic Commissioners, said that all the men concerned had other jobs which often made it impossible for them to have the required amount of rest before commencing to drive a coach.
Frank Marsh, of Brixham (an optical technician) was fined £300 on three offences; refuse lorry driver Alan McGeahy of Torquay was fined £400 on four offences; Torbay council driver Brian Balmer of Torquay was fined £400 on four offences; health service messenger Arthur Stewart of Paignton, was fined £825 on 11 offences; Post Office driver Keith Williams and Henry Hamilton, both of Torquay, were each fined £100 on one offence. Each of the drivers was ordered to pay £20 costs.
• WALLACE ARNOLD is reducing the size of its Leeds-based coach fleet by around 30 to about 170 vehicles. The company is said to be rationalising and sharpening up its operation, and blames the cut partly on the miners' strike.