Offences Risk Tenure of Licences
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ROSECUTING for the Northern 1 Licensing Authority before Bishop Auckland magistrates last week in cases in which operators and rivers were fined for offences concerning hours of work and the keeping of records, Mr. J. L R. Croft emphasized that the offences jeopardized hauliers' licences. Drivers, he said, should show more consideration for their employers. Responsibility for the proceedings rested fairly and squarely on the drivers.
Messrs. Davison Bros., Seymour Street, Bishop Auckland, were fined El, with £1 Is. costs, on each of nine charges, and two of their drivers paid a total of £6. For the firm it was pleaded that drivers had been given sufficient time to keep to their schedules and that recorders were being fitted to some of the lorries.
Messrs. S. Morley and Son, Watling Street, Bishop Auckland, and Mr. G. Etherley Dene, an owner-driver, were also fined. The cases arose out of checks made at Scotch Corner by an official examiner. He had found that several vehicles' departure times as entered on the log sheets did not tally with his timings at the cheek-point.
BANK HOLIDAY MARKETS MAY CLOSE
ROAD hauliers were asking for the support of farmers to have fatstock auction marts abolished on Bank Holidays. This was said at a meeting of the Carlisle branch of the National Farmers' Union last week.
Extra pay dem...Wed by lorry drivers for Bank Holidays, plus the fact that some drivers will not work on such days, may cause marts in Carlisle to be abandoned on those days, it was stated. Lorry drivers were entitled to at least double pay, and to the farmers it meant double or treble transport costs.
A member said that the time was rapidly approaching when this problem would solve itself as ,there would be no haulage to transport the stock. Many drivers refused to work and it was becoming a serious problem.
The meeting agreed to take no action.
BARRHEAD HAULIERS EXPAND
'THE Barrhead haulage company of 1 McKelvie and Co., Ltd., have acquired the Motherwell depot of London Scottish Transport, Ltd. As well as premises, there are 16 lorries and six trailers (120 tons) on special A licence and five unlicensed trailers. Existing staff have been retained.
This purchase continues the development of McKelvie and Co., who disposed of their passenger interests more than a year ago to concentrate on long-distance haulage. • The role Of most of the London Scottish fleet, on first offer, was revealed exclusively in The Commercial Motor on October 5. The company is in liquidation.
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