ibunal dismisses Brunton appeal
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4 appeal by C. J. Brunton, a Sussex timber haulier, which was reported in AMERCIAL MOTOR on June 17, was dismd this week by the Transport Tribunal. appeal was against the decision of the th Eastern deputy LA, who had refused rant an A licence for six vehicles to carry Id and wood pulp.
he applicant had submitted that he would able to supply haulage at a discount to present customer, Forrest Thinnings ., in respect of outward loads if his ice permitted him to back load. This was situation at the moment and this new lication was to permit an extension of ,e facilities. In addition the appellant !red to undertake increased business for brook Pulp Mills Ltd. The application been supported by both Forrest Thin
s Ltd. and Sudbrook Pulp Mills Ltd. Iritish Railways and two road hauliers, W. Godden Ltd. of Mayfield, Sussex, and W. Russell of Crowborough, Sussex, .cted. The evidence of the hauliers had cated a fear of abstraction of traffic by a of six vehicles on a full A licence. The uty LA, in refusing the application, had sidered that the evidence afforded abut
t support for a variation of conditions of existing B licence.
4r. M. H. Jackson-Lipkin had submitted . a licence should be granted as asked, .e especially since the appellant had no :r business than that of a haulier, and he ted the case of Clark versus BTC (1962), Traffic Case 107. Miss E. Havers, for the respondents, had contended that the main customers already had transport facilities that met the need of their existing traffic.
The Tribunal agreed with Miss Havers' submission. The fact that the appellant was solely a haulier was, they felt, only one factor to be considered. Since the haulier and the main customers were able to continue their business on the existing B licence the Tribunal considered that there was no justification for a change from B to A.