A You must not only inform the LA: you should seek
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a variation in your conditions. This application will be published in As and Ds and will be open to objection.
Could you recommend a simple incentive scheme for drivers—one that does not involve a complicated bonus system?
AIt cannot be emphasized too strongly
that several incentive schemes relative to road transport operation which have received much publicity recently have taken a year or more to devise and put into operation. Obviously the companies concerned—many of them household names—would not have gone to this trouble if some simpler scheme would have served the same purpose. Many experienced operators would doubt whether any simple incentive scheme could prove entirely satisfactory.
A fuel bonus scheme may well result in some reduction in fuel costs and so in total operating costs. But such schemes have been known to have an adverse effect on the overall amount of traffic moved. In constrast, a bonus related to increased tonnage can lead to bad operational practices and so increased opera
tional costs, with or without the breaking of legal regulations, as is only too well known in some fields of tipper operation.
However a simple bonus scheme in relation to freedom from accidents is probably the one most commonly practised and so, presumably, with beneficial results.