Hauliers Fined £275 and Drivers £30
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CINES totalling £275 were imposed last I week on Leverington Transport, Ltd.. Station Road, Terrington St. Clement. for offences relating to drivers' records.
Terrington magistrates also fined five drivers a total of £30, with £4 14s. 9d. costs, on 15 charges of failing to keep correct records or driving for excessive hours, or both. One iriver was fined for not having 10 consecutive hours' rest, as well as for driving for more than Il hours on the same day.
The company were fined £5 on each of 55 charges referring to incidents during the two-month period from the middle of last July. They pleaded guilty to all charges.
Mr. S. J. Green, prosecuting, said that in 18 of the charges the complaint against the company was that items in respect of goods carried were left blank and in the remaining 37 cases details of the journeys were incomplete. Those responsible for looking after the company's affairs had not given proper supervision.
Mr. J. R. Kratt, defending, said all the offences related to two vehicles. The company were, in effect, in the hands of the drivers in the matter of records. Some had been dismissed for not keeping proper records.
SALFORD TRAFFIC 61% DOWN
ADECLINE of more than 61 per cent. in the number of passengers carried was experienced in the year ended March 31 last by Salford Transport Department. Gross receipts dropped by 53 per cent., mileage by about 33 per cent.
Mr. Charles W. Baroth, general manager, says in his annual report that the decrease of £85,638 in receipts in a year was not a true indication of the extent of the recession in traffic, because revenue in the year ended March 31, 1957, was inflated by the special circumstances of the Suez situation. '
The favourable factors which enabled the undertaking to record a surplus of £109,202 in 1956-57 disappeared last year, and a loss of £12,136 was incurred.
PROFIT CLAIM CUT
WHEN Mr. M. J. L. Henderson, haulier, 3 Crown Terrace, Mount Vernon, Barnsley, a witness at Sheffield West Riding Court last Friday. claimed £10 loss of profit on a load that he would have taken to Liverpool had he not been required to appear in court, the amount was reduced to £2. His lorry had been involved in a collision with a car, the driver of which was fined for careless driving.