Tribunal Uphold Grant of
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Short-term B Licences THE decision of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority to grant shortterm B licences to two haulage firms for the carriage of gravel being used in the construction of the Staines By-pass was upheld by the Transport Tribunal on .Monday.
Janes and Co., Ltd., Janes Transport, Ltd., both of Slough, and William Truckel, Ltd.. of Battersea Park Road, London, S.W.8, had appealed against the granting of the licences to J. Pike and Sons, Ltd., of Stokenchurch, Bucks, and J, D. G. Pearce, of Eltham. The respondent firms did not appear and it was disclosed during the hearing that they were not using the licences.
Mr. M. H. Jackson-Lipkin, for the appellants, said that Costains, the civil engineering contractors, entered into an 'agreement with T. W. Bates Aggregates, Ltd., giving them the opportunity of digging and hauling the gravel used in the construction of the by-pass.
The agreement was that Bates Aggregates should do that work, but not using their own vehicles. They got hold of a number of men and offered them contract A licences to do the work. Those licences were granted by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority. Later the Authority felt they had not been properly granted and told Bates Aggregates that the men they had found to do the work should apply for short-term B licences.
No Tenders Invited
Giving the Tribunal's decision, Sir Hubert Hull said that neither of the respondentshad taken advantage of the decision of the Licensing Authority in their favour. "The company which had the contract to dig the gravel and transport it did -not circulate or obtain the • views of the hauliers in the immediate neighbourhood as to the price they would charge for doing the work. They found other hauliers who agreed to accept a rate of 3s. 6d. a cubic yard."
. The appellants considered that 4s. 6d. was theproper rate if vehicles were to be safely loaded _andobserye the speed . If was true that the 3s. 6d. rate m,eant that the' respondentswere doing the work, at a loss, then that Would be .a reason for not giving them a licence. , If the respondents .had taken up their licences the Tribunal would have said they were entitled to retain them. .
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