Drivers —and Overtime
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\/VOUR correspondent "Trade Unionist" is rather biased OUR his letter (The Commercial Motor, January 26, 1962) against the employer. Be fair, if drivers are in a union they should not need to work overtime. But this does not appear to apply. Many drivers will not take a job unless there is a great deal of overtime.
If they take a job on the understanding that they do the job in the prescribed hours they start causing trouble, and complain that the wages are too low. When they are waiting for loading or having their breaks in the cafés en route B,46 they tell fairy tales about their earnings and swallow each others' yarns.
Then again, take the case of the lodging money. How many drivers find themselves a bed with that? Not many venture to suggest.
Yeovil, Somerset. J. BOWEN.