A PPLICANTS who treat their cases casually, despite receiving a form
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from the Licensing Authority, must be prepared to take the consequences. This was pointed out last week by Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, when a haulier claimed that he did not think figures or witnesses were necessary for the addition of a vehicle to his B licence.
Mr. I. H. Smith, a director of the White Ash Haulage . Co., Ltd., Oswaldtwistle, said the vehicle was at present on contract-A licence, which would be surrendered if the application were granted. Questioned by Mr. Lindsay, he agreed that the contract was taken out only last June, but said the vehicle had been employed on only two occasions.
The contractors had been hiring other vehicles while this one stood idle, but he had no witnesses to say they no longer required the vehicle.
Mr. R. C. Oswald, for the British Transport Commission, submitted that, as an established haulier with two B-licence vehicles, the applicant should have known better than to waste the courts time.
The application was refused. • LEEDS-LLANDUDNO REFUSAL
APPLICATIONS by Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., and Rogers Motor Coaches, Leeds, for new summer express services between Leeds and Llandudno, have been refused by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners in a reserved decision. The companies sought varied picking-up and setting-down points in the West Riding and North Wales (The Commercial Motor, January 10 and 17).
Wallace Arnold's application for a similar service from Knottingley has also been rejected.
GRIMSBY EXPECTS LOSS
A LOSS • of £2,700 in the present rl financial year is expected by Grimsby and Cleethorpes Joint Transport Committee. Income in the nine months ended last December was £307,142 whilst expenditure was £285,158.