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Higher Wages for Sate Drivers ?
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THE grading and payment of commercial-motor drivers according to their degree of immunity from accidents, and the basing of insurance premiums to a large extent on the grade of driver employed, are the kernel of a scheme for insurance reform which was been formulated by Mr. Clifford Seed, of Leeds, official insurance broker to the Yorkshire Stage Carriage Operators Association. Under this plan the driver with the best record would receive the highest wages, and his employer, would pay the lowest insurance premiums for the class of vehicle which he uses. Such an arrangement, suggests Mr. Seed, would encourage carefulness in driving.
In an interview with one of our representatives, Mr. Seed said that his plan provided that all drivers must possess an accident-claims record card, for the supply of which the insurance companies might be responsible. To a driver against whom no accident claims had been recorded for a period of, say, three years, a first-class record card would be given. To drivers who could not show such immunity from accident claims, second-class or thirdclass cards should be issued, according D54 to the number of claims against them. The National Joint Conciliation Board would then establish wages on the basis that the higher the driver's safedriving class, the higher his pay.
" The • insurance companies," said Mr. Seed, "may then reasonably say that rates of insurance should be, to a large degree, based upon the class of driver employed.
"Whilst the wages question has been under discussion by the National Joint Conciliation Board, no mention whatever has been made as to the standard of drivers' qualifications. To my mind, to deal with the wages question in such a way, solely upon the basis of the carrying capacity of a vehicle and the area of operation is very unsound."