Agreement for Working
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by British Road Services and the Union on the revision of the oduction of running schedules based
important aspect is a compensation journeys quicker.
to come into effect at the same time
In respect of the second factor, if payments have been greater than for 11 hours plus one, the points will be increased by the appropriate fraction; if less, they will be reduced. Concerning the third factor, if payments have been less frequent than continuously for five or six shifts each week, the points will be proportionately reduced. No payment will be made for purely casual working.
This scheme has been negotiated to reimburse drivers for loss of accustomed earnings. An official of the Union told The Commercial Motor on Tuesday that one of its most notable effects would be the end of the 66-hr. guaranteed week affecting drivers in tile Fisher-Renwick section of B.R.S.
Other negotiations have affected payment for night work. All workers whose hours of duty entail employment between 9 p.m.-6 a.m. are to be paid night money for all time worked between those hours. Night money will be at the rate of onefifth the plain time rate of the man concerned. A designated night worker will be paid night money for the first nine hours worked in any period of night duty.
Rates for stores' men and senior stores' men in the maintenance and repair grades have been increased by 6s. 6d. and 7s. 6d. a week respectively. Rates for juveniles have been raised in proportion. These increases are back-dated to November 10, 1958.
SCREEN OPENED: "NO-WIPER" CHARGE FAILS
BECAUSE the windscreen of his vehicle was of the opening type, a driver got off a charge of not having a wiper at Stourport last week. Reginald Leonard Beeston. Sutton Park Road, Kidderminster, admitted not having a wiper on his lorry, but said that the law was that a vehicle should have a wiper or a windscreen that could be opened to give
a clear view. His lorry had such a windscreen.
The chairman: "You are perfectly in the right, hut 1 don't think it is very good law."
Beeston was fined £.1 for not having an exterior mirror on the off side of his vehicle although he pleaded that in addition to the interior mirror there was one on the near side.
ONE-MAN BUS WITHDRAWN A FTER a mass meeting of bus crews, the Mexborough and Swinton Traction Co: Ltd., have stopped the experimental running of a one-man bus. It is understood that drivers were prepared to operate the vehicle only on terms which were not acceptable to the company.