P.S.V. Tyre Meeting Next Week
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FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IT is understood that a meeting will be held on Thursday, June 22. between the I Ministry of Transport, passenger-vehicle manufacturers and operators, and tyre manufacturers to discuss the proposed abolition of the 10 per cent. tyre-overload allowance at present granted by certifying officers in respect of p.s.v. tyres.
As things stand at present it would appear that all types of passenger service vehicle may in future have their tyre loadings restricted to those specified by the tyre manufacturers, quite irrespective of whether these vehicles are likely to operate • at high speeds on motorways or not.
Certainly, the tyre makers are agreed that the 10 per cent. contingency allowance should not apply to vehicles likely to operate at speeds in excess of 55 m.p.h., and whilst this sort of speed would not apply to normal stage-carriage vehicles it is growing increasingly difficult these days to clearly differentiatebetween certain types of stage-carriage vehicles and coaches, hence certifying officers would be faced with difficult decisions in some cases.
One solution might be to stamp a vehicle's certificate of fitness or road service licence if that vehicle were suitably tyred for high-speed motorway operation. An arrangement of this nature would therefore enable genuine stage-carriage vehicles to continue to run at normal speeds with their tyres overloaded by 10 per cent.
Those stage-carriage operators who ran services which included stretches of motorway would, of course, be able to do so only if their vehicles were tyred within the recognized loading limits.
Appeal Fails
A N appeal by J. C. Ashworth, Ltd., of
Brentford, against a decision of the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, who refused to grant them an additional 6 tractors and 12 trailers on A licence, was dismissed by the Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday.
Mr. J. D. Purcell, for the appellants, said that Ashworth's already operated 24 vehicles on A licence, and required the extra tonnage to enable them to cope with a general increase in their business. ' For the B.T.C.. Mr. G. P. Crowe submitted that Ashworth's customers were receiving the maximum amount of co-operation and consideration from hauliers, and were getting transport regularly at very short notice.
Dismissing the appeal, Sir Hubert Hull, the president, said: "We think this appeal fails in its entirety. We are content to adopt as our own judgment the statement of the Licensing Authority. We cannot usefully add to it, or deduct any sentence from it."
Judgment Reserved
THE Transport Tribunal on Tuesday
reserved their judgment in an appeal by F. Prescott, Ltd.. John M. Walker (Liverpool), Ltd., and Barton Haulage (St. Helens), Ltd., against a grant made by the Deputy North Western Licensing Authority to J. Branch of Great Sankey. near Warrington.