Tribunal Ruling On Contract Work
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WHEN ,public A licences are substituted for contract-A licences, one of the things the Licensing Authority should ascertain is whether the former contract customers will continue to give their work to the haulier. This was stated last week by Mr. Hubert Hull, chairman, giving a
decision of the Transport Tribunal in an appeal heard in London. .
"it is essential that an applicant should, in some way or another, make it clear to the Licensing Authority that he has no intention of taking on. some other of his 'customers' contract-A custom," said Mr. Hull. "We hope Licensing Authorities will see that is carried out in future." •
Mr. Hull made these remarks when the Tribunal rejected an .appeal by Mr. Basil Henry King, Kempton, Beds, who, contested a decision by the Eastern Licensing Authority. Mr. King had been granted one B-licence vehicle, but claimed that he needed two to cope with all the work . he had on hand.
Announcing the decision, Mr. Hull said Mr. King had two A-licence vehicles granted last May to supplement his flVevehicle special-A fleet. The question now was whether those two vehicles had relieved him of pressure and, looking at the traffic carried by the seven vehicles, the Tribunal were satisfied that they were not fully oceupied. Earnings 'figures showed this to be true.
For the applicant, Mr. M. D. Van Oss had claimed that the fleet was overworked to such an extent that proper maintenance could not he carried out. Mr. King had surrendered five -contract-A vehicles and a lot of other work was, coming in which he could not handle.