Still More Haulage Students Needed
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EXAMINATIONS in road transport subjects organized by the Royal Society of Arts last year attracted a greater proportion of students from road haulage than ever before, but the majority of students still came from the passenger side of the industry.
Noting this in their 1959 report, the National Committee on Road Transport Education repeat the request made in the previous year's report that all goodstransport undertakings, whether hauliers or ancillary users, should encourage employees to take up studies under the scheme.
This could be done by exhibiting the committee's posters and nominating an officer, or senior emploYee, to take a special interest in the scheme. The next session begins in September and details can be obtained from Miss D. M. Kirby, National Committee on Road Transport Education, 55 Broadway, London, S.W.1.
Much of the tuition is done by parttime instructors, and operators are asked to encourage members of their staffs to offer their services as teachers.
CHANNEL BRIDGE PROPOSED NGLAND and France should be joined by a bridge, not a tunnel, because only a bridge would allow extremely large road vehicles to travel between the two countries.
This is stated by Dorman tong (Bridge and Engineering), Ltd., who, with a French and an American company, have put forward a scheme to build a 1.200m. bridge to span the Straits of Dover.
Other alleged disadvantages of a tunnel compared with a bridge include fire and ventilation hazards, and that a 25-mile underground journey cannot be pleasant.
The envisaged bridge would have a central highway for fourand multiwheeled vehicles flanked by railway tracks, and roads for cycles and motorcycles.
It would cost about twice as much as a tunnel to build, but the company state that the amount should be viewed in relation to the potential density of traffic.
BONUS SYSTEM CRITICIZED
THE system of making bonus payments to lorry drivers according to the numbers of runs made in a day was criticized by Col. J. W. Wintringham, chairman of Grimsby county magistrates, last week.
He made the comment when James Moughton, Tennyson Road, Cleethorpes, wrote admitting a charge of .driving a lorry without reasonable consideration for other road users. Moughton was fined O.
"Although we have no official information of any bonus system, it is generally known that some concerns pay drivers for getting additional loadings," said Col. Wintringham.
"We have to regard that as an incentive to drivers to go faster," he added.