Fines for Forged Drivers' Records
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FINES amounting to £182 were imposed on Clifford Hughes and Co., Ltd., at a resumed hearing at Ruthin last week. The company, with four of their drivers, were charged with alleged offences regarding drivers' records and excessive hours, from March 23. The hearing lasted for some eight hours and resulted in the company being fined a total of £182.
The drivers were fined a total of £52, involving 26 record offences. On a further charge concerning drivers' hours, the company was fined £10 and the drivers £3. Hughes were also ordered to pay £52 10s. costs.
HALLS' FLEET COVERS 22m. MILES DLANT and mechanical vehicles stand
at £3,317,907 (at cost) in the balance sheet of Hall and Co., Ltd., and subsidiaries, for last year. Mr. M. W. Hall, chairman and managing director, says that the fleet of more than 1,100 lorries travelled over 22m. miles in the year, carrying building materials and distributing fuel.
Eight-wheeled 15-tonners, tankers, bulk cement and lime carriers and agitator vehicles for ready-mixed concrete were among the 185 new vehicles brought into service. The fleet is maintained at 28 main and sub-workshops employing a staff of 228.
TRAILERS TO REMOVE ABANDONED CARS
SPECIAL two-wheeled trailers are being built by Meadway Spares, Ltd., Bordesley Green, Birmingham, for the removal of derelict cars abandoned by their owners in the streets and open sites of the city. It is expected that there will be many more vehicles abandoned when compulsory inspection for old cars is introduced.
Birmingham Works Committee are organizing a disposal system which will enable 1,000 wrecks to be removed from the streets at the rate of about 100 a month.
The trailers are 12 ft. 6 in. long and are -a the low-loading type with a cranked axle. Floor and sides are lined with sheet steel and, at the rear, the body is funnel shaped, the end section being
the full width of the vehicle. A ramp and winch are provided.
Two trailers will be used in conjunction with a Land-Rover and a Karricr Bantam.
Wrecks will be taken by the trailers to a disposal site provided by Meadway in Adderley Park.
FINED FOR SMOKING
AFINE of £5 was imposed on British Road Services at Gateshead, last week, for permitting a vehicle to emit excessive smoke. The driver was fined £1.
For B.R.S. it was pointed nut that reliance had to be placed upon drivers to report faults on a vehicle. The vehicle concerned had recently received a major overhaul.