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Record and Licence Offences: £626 Fines

21st February 1958
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RECORDS kept by a Gloucestershire transport company indicated that on a particular day, the same vehicle was being driven by three different drivers in different parts of the country, Staple Hill (Glos.) magistrates were told last week. Fines totalling £626, with £87 15s. costs, were imposed on F.L.S. Transport, Ltd., Oldland Common, and 12 of their drivers.

The company who are controlled by Farmers Lime Spreading. Ltd., were fined a total of £200 on 40 summonses for using goods vehicles without licences, and £296 for 74 cases of failing to ensure that proper records were kept. The drivers were fined a total of £130 in 71 cases of failing to keep records. All the defendants pleaded guilty.

Mr. R. F. P. Holloway, prosecuting for the Western Licensing Authority, said on one occasion it was discovered that a lorry was reported to have been driven from London to Bitton, Glos. On the same day the vehicle was also supposed to have been driven by another man from Bristol to Oxford and by another driver from Manchester to Bristol. , The manager of the company, George Henry Packer. said control over certain parts of the business was being transferred to headquarters at Wantage. Berks, so he had not been in close contact with the Oldland Common depot. Supervision there had been left in the hands of clerks.

New vehicles had been arriving at intervals and he had waited for them all to arrive before applying for a revised licence.

[The prosecution was forecast exclusively in The Commercial Motor on January 31.1

TWO MEN ON ONE-MAN RUSES

FOUR one-man buses bought by Rotherham Corporation are being operated by drivers and conductors, because of a dispute with the Transport and General Workers' Union. Union officials have asked for a promise that the transport committee would restore conductors to one-man vehicles in the event of redundancy.

Aid. G. A. Brown, chairman of the committee. said: "We have pointed out the saving in money and manpower, and that we are prepared to operate these vehicles only in non-peak hours."

Further meetings with the Union are being arranged.

FEWER COACHES USE PARKS

QNLY 7,616 coaches last year used parks provided by Scarborough Corporation. This was the lowest number for 10 years, and less than half the 1948 total.

Mr. I. E. Thomas, chief inspector of weights and measures, says in his annual report that if the town's William Street coach park is to be closed, suitable alternative accommodation for coaches and passengers should be made. He points out that, last year, 203,000 passengers used the park.

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