Hauliers to Delay Notifying R.H.E.
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ESOLUTIONS pledging hauliers whose permits are to • be revoked, not to disclose their intention to retain or offer their businesses to the Road Haulage Executive until the last possible date, have been passed at meetings of the Road Haulage Association in Burslcm. Worcester and Nuneaton.
Mr. J. Male, vice-chairman of the West Midland Area, speaking at Burslem, pointed out that the Government would say that only a certain percentage of permits had been revoked. It was, however, the vehicle strength affected, rather than the number of permits revoked, that mattered.
Mr W. E. Foster, secretary of the Devon and Cornwall Area, told the Torquay, Paignton and Brixham Subarea that 400 of the 750 hauliers in the two counties had been running under permits beyond 25 miles. It was estimated that in Devon and Cornwall, 100 permits, covering 320 vehicles, were to be revoked and 78 permits (281 vehicles) were to be substituted.
HIGHER PAY FOR BUS CRAFTSMEN WAGES and conditions of work of V1' craftsmen employed by municipal bus undertakings have been established on a national basis under a new agreement negotiated by the Joint Industrial Council for engineers, electricians, vehicle builders and other tradesmen employed in the transport industry.
Minimum hourly pay rates, when the agreement comes into force on December 1, will be: Grade 1, 3s. Id.; grade 2, 3s.; grade 3, 2s. 11d. There will be a 44-hour week of 5 or 51 days, with overtime pay at time-and-a-half. Two weeks paid holiday, plus six statutory days off a year, and a sick-benefit scheme, are other provisions of the agreement.
ALL N.E. TRAMS TO GO PLANS have been drawn up for the replacement by motorbuses of the last trams operating in Gateshead and Newcastle-on-Tyne. The trams belong to the Gateshead and District Transport Co., Ltd., and operate over the High Level Bridge from Gateshead to Newcastle Central Station.
When the Newcastle and Gateshead trams have been abandoned, Sunderland will be the only north-east town still using this type of vehicle. Sunderland trams are, however, to be replaced by buses under a long-term scheme.
QUESTIONS NOT ALLOWED
A T the quarterly meeting of Rutland Pis County Council, Court. Stanley Atkin complained that when he attended mzetings with the Road Passenger Executive on the proposed eastern area scheme, he was not allowed to ask questions.
He said that Rutland and parts of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire had now been excluded from the scheme. He was deputed to continue on behalf of the county council to oppose the nationalization of passenger transport.