SNOW-PLOUGHS ON BUSES AND ,LORRIES TO KEEP ROADS CLEAR
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DISCUSSING plans sponsored by the Ministry of War Transport to keep the highways clear in blizzards by fitting snow-ploughs to buses and lorries, Mr. A. Robertson, Transport Commissioner for the Northern Area of Scotland, stated last week that "everyone concerned has expressed satisfaction at the prospect of effective steps to keep the roads clear. The bus companies and private haulage, contractors are only too willing to co-operate with us."
A standard type of -snow-plough is being mass-produced, and, fitted to specially adapted vehicles, the ploughs will form a panzer division for the battle which road operators have to wage against the weather.
CONDUCTRESS FINED £8 FOR ABSENTEEISM PLEADING guilty to having absented herself from work as a bus conductress with W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., Falkirk, without reasonable excuse, contrary to the Essential Work Order, Annie Campbell was fined 48 at Stirling Sheriff Court last week.
NEW-ORDER FOR QUEUES FOR PASSENGER VEHICLES
THMinister of War Transport has mEade an Order, to take effect from September 6, which will amend and amplify his previous Order, which came into force 'on April 12, 1942, relating to queues for passenger vehicles.
The new Order permits a queue to be broken to give effect to any local scheme for priority to workers or any other class of passenger, and prohibits intending passengers from trying to board a vehicle, which is at or approaching a stopping place, before those waiting in a queue.
The Order also provides that markings on the pavement for regulating the formation of queues shall be regarded as though they were barrier rails. Passengers must leave the vehicle at terminal points if requested to do so by the driver or conductor.
PLEA SAVES HAULIER'S DRIVER FROM SUSPENSION
AT Paisley Sheriff Court, last week, the practical impossibility of replacing civilian transport -drivers was advanced by a solicitor as a just reason for not suspending the driving licence of a man who admitted having driven a car while under the influence of drink.
The solicitor submitted that the accused, as a giver with a haulage concern, was playing an important part in the war effort. His employer, who owned two vehicles, had such difficulty in getting drivers, that recently, although he was 65 years old, he had to take over the driving of one of the lorries. In addition, the accused was a part-time N.F.S. driver and had been driving for 30 years without an offence against the Road Traffic Act.
Honorary Sheriff-substitute Johnston upheld the solicitor's plea, but ordered the licence to be endorsed. He also imposed a line of 26, with the alternative of 30 days' imprisonment..