One-customer 'A' Holder Not Public Carrier?
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A HAULIER offering facilities to one 1-1 customer only was not a public carrier and should ndt. be granted an A licence. The British Transport Commission put this proposition at Liverpool on Monday. when they objected to an Alicence renewal application by R. Wilcock, Seri., and R. Wilcock, Jun., Liverpool, before the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe.•
Mr. E. A. Whitehead, for the aPPlicants, said they were seeking a modified normal user of "meat and wrapping materials, Liverpool, Paisley,. Durham, Evesharn, London." For the past four years their sole customer had been the Richmond Sausage Co., who kept the vehicle fully occupied, and it was on a regular run to the places mentioned.
Mr. G..H. P. Beames, for the B.T.C., submitted that if the applicants were carrying solely for one customer, either a contract-A or a B licence was appropriate.
There were no return loads. In the Hodge appeal, the Transport Tribunal had said that objectors were within their rights in suggesting that a B licence was more appropriate.
Referring to the changing face of B.T.C. arguments, Mr. Whitehead pointed out that in November, 1957, B.R.S. (Pickfords), Ltd., applied for. A licences for two vehicles which had been contracted to the exclusive use of a well-knowncompany for seven years. Now the boot was on the other foot.
The existing normal user of the licence was "Liverpool and district," said Mr.
Jolliffe. Mr. Whitehead himself had raised the issue of districts and it had been consistently abused for four 'years. The applicants had operated a regular run without authority. Evidence of need had been shown and the application would be granted, but the applicants must be more careful in future.
REMOVERS WATCH "A. AND D."
lk/TEMBERS of the National Associa
iYl of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers, Ltd., are urged by their executive council to keep a close watch on " Applications and Decisions."
They are recommended to oppose applications to replace special A licences for ordinary A licences wherever there is clear evidence to show that household and other types of removal have not been a usual part of the applicants' activities, and are included in the current application.