Pointer tidy-up
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• An application by Pointer Group Holdings Ltd., of Norwich, for five new A licences and five new B licences, subject to the surrender of 10 A licences, 14 B licences and six Contract A licences held by Pointer Group Transport Ltd., was heard by the Eastern LA, Mr. H. E. Robson, at Cambridge last week.
Six of the original objectors, including the NFC, in respect of Pickfords Ltd., and BRS Ltd., withdrew, leaving Anglia Heavy Haulage Ltd. and Peterborough Heavy Haulage Ltd. as the sole objectors. Although the LA said he agreed in principle with the application, his decision was reserved.
Mr. Richard Yorke, appearing for Pointer, said the Group had put in the application because it had been concerned for some time at the complexity of its present licences and at the resulting lack of flexibility.
The applications were to identify the vehicles carrying products of the Group, which would be on the B licence, and those carrying goods for other customers, he said, which would be on the A licence. The normal users would be simplified, introducing a uniform normal user for both the A and the B fleet.
The Group also required to reduce the existing 13 bases in the Eastern traffic area to five, said Mr. Yorke, each of which would have a transport manager in control.
The overall effect of this, he said, would not be to increase the number of vehicles operated but to reduce the fleet by eight per cent.
On the behalf of the objectors, it was said that their main objection was to five lowloaders to be based at Norwich and two at Ipswich which would have a wide normal usetr with unlimited radius.