Facts Must Follow Short-term Working
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WHEN the time came for a haulier to make a substantive application, following a short-term grant, figures should always be produced to show how the short-term working had affected operations. Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, pointed this out at Liverpool last week when he was considering three applications made by Messrs. J. B. Caulfield,
Garston. '
Mr. E. A. Whitehead, for the applicants. said that they were asking for a condition to be added to a B licence to carry parcels and smalls within 25 miles of base and to Manchester, for a B vehicle of 31 tons to carry goods from Liverpool docks to the city, Bootle and Garston, and to renew a B licence for two vehicles of 61 tons.
The application had been adjourned last October when Mr. G. H. P. Beames, E4 then objecting for British Railways, insisted that figures should be broken down.
Caulfield had promised to surrender a contract-A licence if a grant were made, and Mr. Whitehead said that this had been done. On the last occasion they had been granted two short-term licences which had now expired, added Mr. Whitehead.
Objecting for the railways, -Mr. J. Edward Jones stated that recent operational figures should have been produced, but Mr. Caulfield, a partner, assured him that all his vehicles covered the same ground each day whether full or empty. A licensed vehicle from the fleet could not be spared for this work.
Mr. Jolliffe granted the renewal of the B licence, the condition regarding the B vehicle, and a short-term licence in respect of the dock work.