HOURS ARRANGEMENT CAUSES PROSECUTION
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AN arrangement made in the interests of the drivers themselves, according to the explanation by the concern, resulted in summonses being brought at the Doncaster West Riding Court, last Saturday, against Felix Motors, Ltd., in respect of bus drivers' hours. The company admitted that on 42 occasions during October and November drivers had worked longer than the maximum legal periods.
The explanation was that the service, from Doncaster to Thorne, was operated, in two shifts, for 16 hours 10 minutes a day, and in order that drivers, on completing their period of work, should not be left stranded at the far end of the route and have to pay to travel home on other services, the arrangement was made that the men took over duty at the terminus. This arrangement meant that the
morning-shift driver worked a little less than the statutory period, but the driver on the afternoon shift worked a little longer.
Similar summonses were brought against another bus operator, S. Morgan, Ltd. In that case, the infringement of the law was said to be due to an arrangement which had been made at the request of a driver.
It was not suggested that the companies concerned were deriving any benefit from the schemes, and the Bench, stating that it did not consider the cases to be serious ones, ordered the concerns to pay the costs.