Railways Ruin Coal Haulage Business
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A T Sheffield last week a private haulier Mr, M. H. Parker, Calow, Chesterfield, told the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority Mr. 1. H. A. Randolph, that British Railways had practically ruined his haulage business.
He was applying for licence conditions "Coal as required for D.M. Services" to take the place of the present condition "open cart coal." He had two vehicles which had spent nearly all their time carrying open cart coal for D.M. Services, a pool of private hauliers of which he was a member. That work had now gone as a result of British Railways' new policy on coal haulage.
He could find work carrying coal from pits to National Coal Board stacking grounds.
Mr. Randolph told him that he had a business which fluctuated as he was not operating certain conditions on his licence, and he could not expect conditions to be put on just to give him work.
The Licensing Authority adjourned the case to enable the applicant to get evidence from the N.C.B. .that they needed his services.