Increased Benefits for B.M.C. Drivers
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4EM BEM of the B.M.C. Drivers' Club VI are to enjoy greatly increased benefits. under their free personal-accident policies: Payment in the event of death, during the first five years of membership, has been raised by 33+ per cent. from £150 to £200. Thereafter, £20 is added for each year of continuous membership up to a maximum of £300. .
The payment of £150 in the event of the toss of an eye or limb continues. A member suffering permanent disability, to a degree of 25 per cent. or more, will receive £100 and, additionally, payments of £30 will be made in respect of every child of the member under the age of 16.
Membership of the club is now 86,000.
TWO YEARS TO BUILD " THE actual construction of the Sheffield-Leeds motorway, apart from procedural and land-acquisition problems, could be executed in little more than two years," states Mr. Henry Foster, Sheffield City. Engineer, in his annual report issued last week. Whilst traffic came on to the roads at a rate of nearly half-a-million extra vehicles a year, land-acquisition procedure was still in the stage-coach era, he added.
Traffic was growing so rapidly in Sheffield that roads would be completely jammed in a few years. "Without adequate Government grants, it is impossible to execute the major road schemes necessary to provide a part of the remedy," Mr. Foster observed.
INSECURE LOAD WARNING
I N future the maximum fine of £20 would probably be imPosed in casesof lorries driven with insecure loads, Stock ton magistrates warned last week. They had heard that 4 tons of steel girders fell off a lorry at Portrack roundabout.
Stanley A. Ginnes Cienton, Peterborough, sent a letter 'admitting that he drove a lorry with an insecure load in Stockton, He said that he was about to return to his depot, to obtain chains for the load, when some of the girders fell off.
tile was fined 110.
£50 FINES IMPOSED
FINES totalling £50 were imposed upon H. and L. A. Reed (Transport), Ltd., Swinefieet, and one of their drivers by Goole magistrates last week for breaches of the drivers' hours regulations.
It was stated in defence that some work done by the driver at Mr. L. A. Reed's farm had been recorded on the log sheets. The prosecuting advocate said that it was still necessary for the man to have his statutory 10 hours' rest no matter what work he did.
NO SURCHARGE APPEAL IT has been decided by Southport Trans port Committee not to appeal against the North Western Traffic Commissioners' refusal to allow week-end surcharges on fares. elk. J. Todd; chairman, said that the Commissioners' decision would cost the undertaking £9,000.
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