RHA delays '0' decision
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A DECISION on the possible extension of the Road Haulage Association's objections to 0licence applications when the applicant appears to have no suitable premises is likely to be delayed for some time. The Association will not decide what to do till it sees the result of the three appeals which It is making to the Transport Tribunal (CM November 14).
The Tribunal will probably not list the cases for hearing till well into the New Year. It has only just received the appeals from the RHA and at least three weeks will elapse before it will be in possession of the original hearing proceedings from the Licensing Authority. Only then will a date be fixed for it to hear the three cases.
In the meantime, the Association's North Western (Eastern) area will continue to recommend cases for objection on the same basis as during the six months experiment which ended at the end of last month. The RHA chairman, Mr Ken Hatcher, referred to the experiment when speaking at the area's annual dinner in Blackpool on Saturday. He said that the results obtained merited wider attention.
On the basis of the NW(E) successful objections, 600 "merchant misadventurers " were rushing into road haulage every year without the proper facilities.
This, at a time when the national economy was in the doldrums, added to the regular hauliers' preoccupation with rates and charges, itself a result of the ill-regulated flow of newcomers.