Five new A licenses for transporters
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• Due to the need for keeping new car mileages to a minimum and because of increased business, Dependable Delivery Ltd. was granted a new A licence in Liverpool last Friday to operate five transporters from Ellesmere Port. With a six-car capacity, the transporters will haul annually a total of 7,500 cars of Vauxhall manufacture.
Because the purchaser has to stand the cost of petrol used during the journey from the factory and the economic advantage of one driver delivering six cars, the company is seeking to reduce the number of individu ally driven deliveries-, said Mr. N. W. Parker, divisional manager of Dependable Delivery. However, the increase in business would ensure no reductions in sub-contracting. In the year ended March 1967. the company handled 53,699 cars and 105,814 the following year, he said.
His company held A and Contract A licences in the Metropolitan and South Eastern areas and it was group policy to have transporters on this type of licence, said Mr. Parker. The group, Distributor Deliveries Ltd., had about 100 A-licensedoransporters as well as a separate haulage division. However, he gave an undertaking to the two objectors that there was no intention of disposing of the Ellesmere Port business or of converting to a different type of traffic.