HAULIERS WITH INCREASED FLEETS OBJECT
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TEN hauliers and the L.M.S. Railway
Co. were objectors at Dundee, on December 12. when Mr. A. Robertson, Deputy Licensing Authority, heard an application for additional licences from PraM Brothers, Ltd., Central Garage, Blairgowrie. The company sought A licences for 15 lorries.
Mr. Andrew Prain, a director, said that the company entered the haulage business in November, 1940, when it bought four vehicles from Messrs. J. W. Anderson, Blairgowrie. Later it bought another vehicle from Messrs. Scott Brothers. Other vehicles had been acquired under war-time short-term permits.
The company specialized in the carriage of pedigree cattle and sheep. Since the first year of its business, the number of cattle carried had increased greatly. Because of the shortage of vehicles, the company had to do jobs after working hours.
Mr. Prain declared that he could keep all the vehicles fully employed without cutting into the work being done by other people. He denied having picked up business during the war while other operators' lorries w ere engaged on the M.O.W.T. pool service. Witnesses for the objectors contended that the applicant was asking for more new vehicles than were justified by the traffic. Two contractors opposing the application admitted, however, that their own fleets had been. increased during the war. The Licensing Authority said that the objectors' case would have been much stronger had some of their own fleets not been increased during the war. The applicant was granted eight A and three short-term A licences, and two B and two Short-term B licences.
Total 2,648
2 3,077 144 35 61,919 65,175 13,628 377 18,695 100,523