Two Days' Offences Cost £70 Fines
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rIFFENCES committed in two days resulted in £70 fines being imposed on a haulier and driver at Staple Hi11, Glos, last week. The haulier, John H. Watts, Warmley, was fined £50 with £55s. costs, when he admitted failing to ensure that a driver kept records, allowing the man to drive for more, than ll hours in 24, letting him drive without 10 hours' rest in 24, and twice permitting him to drive for more than 51 hours at a stretch.
The driver admitted committing the offences and was fined £20, with two months to pay.
Mr. P. J. Farr, defending, pointed out that the offences were committed over a period of only two days. The inspector who examined the records was so impressed by those made out by the driver concerned that he suggested other drivers should see them.
" FREE TRANSPORT" PLEA AGAIN REJECTED ERE is no early prospect of road transport being denationalized in Northern Ireland, Lord Glentoran. Minister of Commerce, told the Ulster Commons last week. He had been asked when he proposed to free road transport as promised in 1956.
Lord Glentoran said that in 1956 he indicated that there would be denationalization in favourable circumstances, but he did not see any prospect of those favourable circumstances arising in the -near future. He hoped, however. that the 1958 Transport Act, which instructed the Ulster Transport Authority to secure a financially sound transport system, would allow the question of denationalization to be considered again when the U.T.A. was paying.
Lord Glentoran was severely attacked by his own party the previous week for not bringing about denationalization of road transport (The Commercial Motor. March 13).
NEW VOLVO ON TRIAL
TWO prototypes of the new crosscountry Volvo L2304 are to make a 19,000-mile testing journey from Gothenburg to Cape Town. The aim is to discover whether the vehicle is suitable for the Swedish company's export programme, particularly in Africa. Four Volvo experts will make the trip.
FORD £5.3m. ARGENTINE PLAN
SPEAKING in Buenos Aires on Monday, Mr. Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co., said he had submitted plans to the Argentine Government for a £5,357,000 project to manufacture lorries in Argentina. An assembly plant is already in operation.
MORRIS STRIKE CONTINUES
MORE than 1,000 employees of Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd., Adderley Park, Birmingham, were still idle this week as a result of a strike by 32 maintenance electricians. The stoppage is now in its fifth week.