Licence Breaches
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A WEST COUNTRY plant hire chief was told by the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, to "get off his high perch" and to "treat others as equals" at Dorchester last week. The managing director of R. S. Percival (Contracts) Ltd., of Exeter and Bridport, Mr. Roger Percival, appeared at a Section 178 inquiry; he also sought to vary his B licence to authorize carriage of materials over any distance for Perry and Perry Ltd., of Beaminster. A decision was reserved.
Mr. Percival told the LA he had pleaded guilty in another court to two charges of overloading, seven charges of unauthorized use, a breach of B-licence conditions and two charges of using a C-licensed vehicle for hire and reward. He explained the reasons leading to these offences and for his discourtesy to a Ministry examiner who had called at his private address after he had finished work.
The LA pointed out that the supporting letter from Perry and Perry called for stone haulage from their quarries to customers' sites in Somerset and Dorset. Mr. Percival said his own vehicles collected materials in London and Perry and Perry had often asked if he could take a load of chippings to London.
Mr. Percival was asked by the LA if he would "pay the slightest Attention to the conditions which carriers have to observe?" He replied that he would comply with regulations and do whatever his licence permitted.