Weight Increase Loophole is Closed
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ANEWfOrtriula has been devised by the North Western Licensing AuthoritY to prevent eicessive increases in the Unladen( weights.Of _vehicles and trailers during the currency of licences. In the past, weight increases have been notified • in • Part IV of A pplications and .Decision and-the•Dperator has been told that any sigbseguent application to replace the-vehicle would be dealt with on the basis of the original weight. This system has proVed unsatisfactory. In future, increases irt 'unladen weight will be scaled and related to the weight at' ,which the vehicle was originally authorized. If the change doe's not exceed 5 cwt. on k tons or less, or 10 cwt. on vehicles of More than 4 ton, the previous procedure will apply. Greater increases will have to be explained by the operator. If it is shown that Carrying capacity will not he raised or that the modifications are not for the purpose of carrying traffics outside the normal user of an A licence or the conditions of a B licence, a variation application will be invited, for the deletion of the vehicle at its original weight and its reinstatement at the new weight. Publication of the application will be at the Licensing Authority's discretion,
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If capacity will be increased or there . is to be a change in normal user or B-licence conditions, the operator will be asked to consider whether • he should apply for a new A licence or the variation of his B licence, In that may he would avoid the risk of action being taken to revoke or suspendhis licence under Section 9(4) of the Transport Act, 1,953, . OSWALD TRANSFELGRANTED IN a reserved decision issued this week, I the West Midland Licensing Authority granted Oswald Transport, Ltd., two articulated vehicles previously based at Wigan. Their new base will-be Talke, Stoke-on-Trent, to which four lorries have already been transferred. The grant will not take effect until April 1, because, as reported in The Commercial Motor on January 22, the North Western Licensing Authority has suspended the two vehicles during March. The normal user of the vehicles will be "mainly steel, building materials and requisites, moulding sand, electrical equipment, forgings, castings and machinery to Scotland from the Midlands, Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales."