Bulk Liquids to the Continent
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INAUGURATED by Bulk Liquid
Transport, Ltd., Gildersorne, Leeds, about eight weeks ago, a tanker service to the Continent has since made regular deliveries to many destinations, including Luxembourg, France, Germany, Holland and Belgium. Most of the consignments were previously transported in 40-gal. drums.
Four vehicles are employed on the service, which has departures on Monday and Tuesday each week via Tilbury-Antwerp. Typical of those used is the 3,500-gal. outfit with A.E.C. Mandator tractor and York semi-trailer which took part in the Leeds round of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition last Sunday.
The service is controlled throughout by the operating company and a 48-hour delivery is given in each direction. Lagged and coiled tanks are employed to deal with solidifying liquids.
WEEKLY MAXIMUM FOR DRIVERS' HOURS?
rOMMENTING on the report of the
road traffic section of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce at a council meeting on Monday, Mr. C. A. F. Hastitow, a former president of the Chamber, asked whether it would be practicable to approach the Transport and General Workers' Union with a proposal that drivers' hours should be based on a weekly maximum total. This would, he said, be a tremendous help to trade and industry, as it would afford operational flexibility.
Mr. C. E. Jordan, chairman of the section, said that the scheme to reduce drivers' hours from 11 to 10 a day was wrong in principle. In some sections of the road transport industry it was possible to arrange for a relief driver to return a vehicle to base, but to concerns operating from one centre, this course was impracticable and the restriction would greatly impair flexibility.
PARTY ORGANIZERS COVERED BY INSURANCE
TO. meet the requirements of
organizers of excursions, a new form of insurance has been devised, combining liability and personal-accident insurance.
Such a policy covers organizers in respect of their legal liability for injury or illness to any member of the excursion, or accidental damage to any member's property during the trip. It also covers personal-accident insurance for any member who meets with any kind of accident during the excursion.
For legal-liability cover the premiums are 2d. per person for a day, or 6d, per person for a month. Personalaccident cover costs 3d. per person per day.
The . scheme. is underwritten by a leading tariff company, British General Insurance Co., Ltd., and Sasserath, Alfred and Co., Ill Baker Street, London, W.1, act as brokers.