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"30" But No Agreement
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B.R.S. and Unions to Meet Again Next Week: Negotiations with Hauliers Fail
E 30 m.p.h. speed limit for heavy rigid and articulated goods vehicles
(but excluding drawbar-trailer combinations) came into force on Wednesday without any agreement having been reached between the employers and the unions on operation at the new maximum speed.
A meeting, to have been held between the unions and British Road Services on Monday, was postponed because certain important information was not available. It is expected to take place next week.
So far as independent hauliers are concerned, all attempts at agreement have failed and it is open to individual employers to make their own arrangements with their staff.
B.R.S. met the unions last week. The fact that negotiations are to continue indicates that the two sides have some hope of reaching a settlement within a reasonable time.
The national executive committee of the Road Haulage Association on Wednesday, approved the employers' refusal to accept the unions' demands. The employers' panel of the Road Haulage Wages Council, who met the unions last week, declined to accede to a three-point claim. The meeting was adjourned and no further meeting has been fixed.
The basis of the unions' demands was, as The Commercial Motor has already reported, a reduction from 11 to 10 hours in the maximum legal driving day, with'a further proviso for the abolition of the I2-hour day on two days of the week. The unions estimated that the shorter day would cause a loss in earnings of 164 per cent., and they accordingly demanded an allround increase in wages of that amount, apart from the award of advances ranging from 7s. to 16s. already agreed: Another demand was that no driver should cover more than 200 miles a day.
No reply had been received this week by the unions to their representations to the Minister of Transport for a 10hour maximum day and the prescription of a maximum daily mileage.
Earlier reports that the Transport and General Workers' Union might, in the absence of an agreement with the employers, instruct drivers not to operate schedules based on a maximum of 30 m.p.h., do not seem to have been borne out. Inquiries made by The Commercial Motor, this week, in London, the eastern counties, the west country, the Midlands and Scotland produced no evidence of difficulty, nor was any expected.