Ten vehicle C-to-B switch
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• A man who 18 months ago took over a one-vehicle A licence applied in Liverpool on Friday to add another van to that licence and to operate 10 vehicles on B licence.
Mr. C. Melia. trading as JCM Transport Services Ltd., told the deputy North Western LA, Mr. G. K. Newman, that the first vehicle had earned £4,187 in the year ended September 1968 and his customers were pestering him for more transport. His clerk had phoned the seven objectors approximately every other day for the last six weeks and had been unable to hire vehicles.
Works manager of Beacon Bedding Co., Mr. J. Youds, said 80 per cent of the company's nine loads a week were outside the Liverpool area and Mr. Melia arranged all Beacon's transport now that two of its four C-licensed vehicles had been transferred to his short-term B licence. Because transport was unobtainable, orders had piled up and the resulting space shortage had meant that staff had been sent home early the previous week, said Mr. Youds.
With regard to the new B-licence applica
tion, Mr. Melia said there were five furniture manufacturers holding C licences for 17 vehicles, who wished to relinquish all but one each for local deliveries and had asked him to organize their transport for them.
Bowlers Furniture Factory was one of the five, said Mr. J. H. Durkin of its sales staff, and it was losing custom through lack of transport.
On behalf of nine objectors, Mr. G. H. P. 13eames said there would be some merit in the B application if it reduced the number of vehicles on the road but the evidence could not justify another A-licensed vehicle.
Mr. Melia said he had return loads of headboards from South Wales and because of the unsure nature of the other transactions with the manufacturers being able to take out C licences at will and leave him with no work, he was more concerned for the A grant.
Mr. Newman said he would grant the B for "furniture, new and used and all materials for furniture manufacture" for the named customers and refuse the A variation.