Need Drivers Keep Records ?
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BECAUSE the company's drivers -1-3 were engaged in agriculture and worked within 25 miles of depots, there was no need for records to be kept, Mr. H. F. T. Gough told Whitehaven magistrates, last week. He was defending the West Cumberland Farmers' Trading Society, Ltd., Whitehaven, on seven summonses concerning drivers' recoids and one regarding hours. The company have some 160 vehicles.
The bench did not accept Mr. Gough's argument, and his contention that three of the men concerned could not be classified as drivers because they were engaged on repairs and maintenance to agricultural machinery and rarely drove goods vehicles, was contested.
An inspector of the Ministry of Transport said that anyone who drove a C-licence vehicle, even if for only a few yards, was obliged to fill in a log sheet.
Mr. Gough said that the company might have been remiss in allowing drivers to record times of working which were not actually times of driving. It was difficult to supervise the keeping of 8,000 vehicle log sheets a year.
Fines totalling £8 were imposed upon the company, with £5 5s. advo cate's fee and 12s. 6d. costs. The drivers involved were each fined it.
WORLDMASTERS TO START SERVICE
MINE Leyland Royal Tiger World11 master chassis have been exported to South Africa to inaugurate a municipal service in Alberton. Bus Bodies (SA.), Ltd„ equipped the vehicles for one-man operation..Some have 62 scats and will be used on the Johannesburg route, whilst others have 52 seats and generous standing room for peak-hour services in Atherton.
The vehicles will serve some 11,000 people who previously used a railway bus service based on Germiston.
Pietermaritzburg and Welkom Village Management Board have ordered six Worldmasters. Pretoria municipality is to purchase nine Leyland Comet tipper chassis, and Brakpan requires four Comet lorries. Middleburg and Graaf Reinet each seeks two Comets.
Pinetown has ordered an Albion Clydesdale 8-ft.-wide lorry, and Knysna is to obtain a Chieftain.
PUBLISHING DELAYS
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