Tribunal support for LAs against Allinson
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George Allinson (Transport), against the deletion of five vehicles and 10 trailers from its licence, which was only renewed for 12 months. The action had been taken by North Eastern Licensing Authority Frederick Whalley following a series of overloading convictions (CM 23-26 March 1990).
The company had held a licence for 70 vehicles and 180 trailers, all of which were specified, and had applied to renew it for 97 vehicles and 245 trailers. It had previously appeared at public inquiries to answer overloading offences, and on the last occasion, in June 1988, the duration of the licence was cut by six months by Deputy LA George Smedley (CM 26-29 June 1988).
The tribunal rejected argu ments that the LA had already taken into account convictions against the company which had occurred prior to the 1988 public inquiry.
It said that managing director David Allinson gave the impression that he had gone to the public inquiry without having thought out or implemented a plan to tackle overloading.
The tribunal was not in the least surprised that the new licence was limited to 12 months. The LA, quite rightly, wished to instil a sense of urgency into Allinson, it said.
The company had sought a substantial increase in vehicles and trailers, said the tribunal. It considered that there was clear justification for limiting the number of vehicles and trailers, in view of the untried nature of many of the steps proposed by Allinson, even though it agreed that such a Limitation was likely to have an adverse effect on the business.