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FINES of £5 5s. on each of -five charges were imposed at Bournemouth, last week, on Shamrock and Rambler Motor Coaches, Ltd., Bournemouth, for causing a driver to use a coach without having 10 consecutive rest hours in 24. The company were ordered to pay an advocate's fee and costs totalling £31 13s.
Mr. C. F. Hiscock, for the Ministry of Transport; said a driver on privatehire tours had 7, 6+, 81, 61 and 7+ hours' rest instead of 10 hours. Another driver, who complained to the management, had been told that if he did not like his job he could resign. Subsequently, he was given full pay and discharged.
For the company, Mr. Philip Evans explained that drivers did not always fill in the time of return. "The driver becomes the chauffeur to the party, and be does virtually whatever the party reasonably asks him to do," he said.
Drivers had long rests during the day. The company had been operating in one way or another since 1887, and did not rely on overworking their drivers to make profits. Out of 55 drivers, only one had been the subject of a summons.