Haulier Pays £107 Penalty
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LINES and costs totalling £107 2s. 4d. I were imposed on Raymond Atkinson, haulier, Pernberley, Pennine Avenue, Riddings, by Heanor magistrates last week for using lorries with out a proper licence. It was stated that he had used vehicles to carry deep' mined coal to a Cheshire power station, whereas his B licence allowed the haulage of opencast coal to screens within a 15-mile radius of Somercotes.
The police were said to have told Atkinson about the irregular employment of the lorries in December, but he continued to use them until late January. Defendant pleaded not guilty and said that he thought he was covered by his licence terms.
EXCURSION FARES UP— AND DOWN
40 coach operators in Man chester and Salford were last week authorized by the North Western Licensing Authority to reduce fares on certain long-distance excursions and to raise charges for shorter distances. Under the new rates, the cost of a return trip to Scarborough is reduced by 2s. 9d. to 15s. 3d., and return trips to Blackpool or Southport are up from 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d, HIGHER PAY FOR DRIVERS
DRIVERS of ancillary vehicles in the building industry now receive an extra 10s. a week, in the petroleum industry road transport workers in wage groups 1-4 have been granted a 9s. weekly rise, groups 5-7. 10s.. and 10s.Ils. in other groups.
ROAD BILL: NEW STAGE THE report stage of the Road Traffic Bill may be after Whitsun, Mr. R. A. Butler, Lord Privy Seal, told Mr. G R. Strauss in the House of Commons last week.
Roller Advertisements in Buses
I LL UM INATED roller advertisements are to be allowed in the lower decks of their buses by Middlesbrough Transport Committee, who, hitherto, have objected to advertisements on their vehicles.
A device is to be fitted to the bulkhead behind the driver's seat, on which the advertisements, in colour, revolve slowly, appearing one at a time on a screen. This system is used in the United States and in other European countries, but it is believed that Middlesbrough will be the first British town ro adopt it.
FREE TRANSPORT BILL
HE Transport (Restoration of Free'. dorn) Bill received its first reading in the Northern Ireland House of Commons last week. It is a private Member's measure, presented by Dr. R. S. Nixon, to abolish the road transport monopoly of the Ulster Transport Authority. The second reading may he taken towards the end of this month, FURTHER MERGER TALKS
AFURTHER joint meeting to discuss the proposal to merge their bus undertakings is to be held by representatives of Grimsby and Cleethorpes. It will be the first meeting of the two sides since Grimsby Corporation suspended for three months their decision to end, on April 30, through running between the boroughs,
OBITUARY
WE regret to record the death of MR W. H. WICKS. Mr, Wicks introduced the first chars. banes into Weston-Super-Mare and, later, the first 14-seat coach to be equipped with pneumatic tyres. He abandoned coach operation in favour of haulage gOOds.
New Concessions for Haulage Men ?
HAULAGE workers are seeking further concessions. The Road Haulage Wages Council will meet on June 12 to consider an application by the employees' side for the abolition of Grade 2 scales of wages, the contraction of the holiday period and the payment of time-and-a-half, instead of time-and-a-quarter, for the first six hours' overtime.
LEEDS CONTEST ENTRIES LIMITED ENTRIES for the Leeds eliminating round of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition are to be limited to 120. It may be necessary in the case of small concerns to restrict entries to one or two each. For larger organizations the maximum will be three.
The competition will be held on the estate of Montague Burton, Ltd., Hudson Road Mills, Leeds, 9, on July 22, starting at 8.30 a.m. Insp. R. R. Burrow, Police Headquarters, Municipal Buildings, Leeds, 1, can now supply copies of the regulations and application forms. Entries have to be lodged by June 9.
ULSTER PREFERS ROAD TRANSPORT
A SPOKESMAN for the Ulster 1-1 Transport Authority told the Transport Tribunal in Belfast, last week, that people preferred to travel by road rather than by rail. The Tribunal were holding an inquiry into the proposal to close certain sections of railway its Northern Ireland.
He said that it would cost, an estimated £70,840, with an extra £47,821 a year for operating, to replace the rail services by buses. The cost of providing road freight services would be £98,670. with an annual operating charge of 010,617 BODIES SHOULD SUIT PALLETS
SIZES of vehicle bodies should accord with the sizes of pallets and packages, it was suggested at a meeting of the Merseyside branch of the Institute of Packaging. Mr. G. Downie, executive officer for materials handling, Unilever, Ltd., said that those interested in packaging, mechanical handling and transport should work co-operatively to solve their own particular problems.
The most popular sizes of pallet in this country werel3 ft. 4 in. square and 3 ft. 4 in. by 4 ft., he said. In Switzerland pallets measuring 2 ft. 8 in. by 4 ft. were standard WON APPEAL—CONVICTED AGAIN
LTHOUGH he had successfully ri appealed against an earlier conviction, at Renishaw, for using a noisy instrument for the purpose of selling ice-cream in a manner likely to cause annoyance, a driver-salesman was, last week, found guilty on a similar charge at Chesterfield and fined £1. He was Selby Douglas Wright, 15 Snape Hill. Dronfield.