ur Coach Partners Pay Court £89
Page 39
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
;CISION was given at Bilston, on Tuesday, in a court case described Ir. W. T. A. Matthews, for the West and Traffic Commissioners, as the est and most complicated he had dealt, with. It concerned Haze'dine
Services, • Walsall Street, Bilston, were found guilty of four-charges of ing up passengers at unauthorized ts (The Commercial Motor, nary 27).
r. Kenneth Wood, South Stafford: Stipendiary Magistrate, decided that could not deal with a summons :ing that they had permitted a man hive without 10 consecutive hours' on June 27, as the offence would : been committed at Blackpool.
r. Matthews had alleged that glas Lloyd had worked at a British
d Services depot before reporting for
with the coach concern. He coned that time spent loading and ading B.R.S. vehicles should be ited as driving time, In his judgment, Wood 'agreed.
iseph Wilfred Hazeldine was fined £4 :ach of the four licence offences, with 10s. 6d. costs, £8 with £7 2s. 6d. costs letting Lloyd drive without enough on June 22, and £1 on each of two lar summonses concerning June 14 28. Similar fines were imposed on his her, Cyril I lazeld in e.
nother brother, Leonard James eldine, and their father, Noah, were ited absolute discharges on payment costs totalling £2 for the licence aces and the June 22 hours summons. summonses against them concerning 14 and 28 were dismissed.
loyd was fined a total of £16.
EAST KENT NOT TO JOIN COMMITTEE
the view of the East Kent Road Car 0., Ltd., no useful purpose would be ed by their becoming members of a 'lased consultative committee to be set Dy local authorities in their area. It been suggested that such a committee Id consider proposals for variations bus services and fares, and make ,mmendations to the Minister of isport regarding the appointment of Be Commissioners.
:ating their position, East Kent told i Town Council that such a eonsulta body would constitute a further culty in obtaining the quickest ,ible implementation of applications.
.HICLE TESTING IN SUMMER? iE testing scheme for vehicles more than 10 years old is due to come into ration by the middle of the summer, oorting to the House of Common's Tuesday, Mr. G. R. H. Nugent. iamentary Secretary to the Ministry fransport, said that up to the end of ruary 8,800 garages had been ected, 3,900 had been found suitable operate the scheme, 240 had been cted and about 5,000 would be peeled again. It was expected that
e than 2m. vehicles would be affected.