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majority of the vehicles being ap1' were in respect of exchanges where aden weight was the same or less lose being substituted and the LA und to grant them. Thus the vehicles ecified under the licence would not ,e at present specified and in conwith which the Licensing Authority ,en notice that he was to consider xler Section 177 of the Act.
was the submission of Mr. J. A. use appearing for F.R. (Hauliers) dford, before the North Western LA, R. Hodgson in Manchester last [he variation applications were in of four A licences, two of which id /8A) were for one vehicle each of lci.vt and 4+ tons respectively, to be ted by vehicles of 4+ tons each, to ired. The LA granted these.
spect of a third licence, 13 vehicles 53 tons were to be exchanged for a lumber weighing 53+ tons and Mr. Ise argued that the LA was bound all but one (a 3+-ton artic to be by a 3+-ton artic) as they were of /eight and type.
-ding the fourth licence, one out of was eligible for automatic grant, Backhouse. In this case eight
vehicles totalling 32 tons would replace nine amounting to 33 tons.
Thus it was the solicitor's submission that since the applications had been lodged in December and January, before the LA's notice under Section 177, once the vehicle switches had been granted. it destroyed the basis for an inquiry thereunder. Herein it said a vehicle specified (not authorized) under a licence may be removed if it has ceased to be used for any reason other than a fluctuation in business. Therefore the LA only had power to delete the vehicles remaining after the automatic grants, he submitted.
Mr. Hodgson said that a letter dated February 12 had been sent to F.R. (Hauliers) saying: "Of a total A-licensed fleet of 32 vehicles, 25 had not been used on any of the 60 operational days commencing September 30 1968, seven of the 25 had not been taxed throughout the period and at least two had been sold. The remaining seven had been used for a total of 826 operations in an actual 1,920-day operational period. None of the vehicles authorized on the /6A and /8A licences had been used at all in the period."
The LA commented that where an operator had had his vehicles off the road for a