100-mile radius cut to 20
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• "It is essential to get agreement on economic rates of running if our industry is to survive," a Kendal haulage contractor told the Northern LA, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at Kendal on Tuesday.
Mr. Leslie Wilson, of Endmoor, near Kendal, was opposing an application by the Kendal firm of E. and A. E. Brooks for a new B-licence for two vehicles to carry road-making and building materials and agricultural materials within a radius of 100 miles. The application was granted within a 20-mile radius of Kendal.
Mr. Wilson maintained that a rate of 31s 6d per hour accepted by the applicant in respect of a four-wheel vehicle was uneconomic. "While rates are improving," he said, "if customers can get extra vehicles they will not put up their rates."
Mr. Edward Brooks, of Old Hutton, near Kendal, who was represented by Mr. J. A. Backhouse, said he wished to carry fertilizer from the Teesside and Scunthorpe area for distribution in South Westmorland. He told Mr. Wilson that he planned to carry loads on both the outward and return journeys in order to make the operation an economic proposition.