Grant to reduce sub-contracting
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• The prime object of its variation application was to benefit its main customer, Castrol Ltd., said Mr J. Priestley, managing director of Priestley Transport Ltd., evvton-le-Willows, at a public inquiry in iverpool last week. The company was pplying to add four articulated vehicles eighing 39 tons, to its A licence.
Mr Priestley estimated that his A-licensed chides, operating only on day work, earned 500/600 per month and thus four vehicles arning £2.000/2,500 would reduce subontractine by 25 /33 per cent.
Objecting for BRS, Mr J. S. Lawton I. nted out that Priestley had always done a gh level of sub-contracting. Being part of he Cyprien Fox group, there was a cross ub-contracting of between £250 and 1,250 per month between the associated ompanies.
Of the £91,500 earned by its A vehicles, 8,000 was work from Lever Bros. Lever as not then an important customer, sugested Mr Lawton. Every customer was portant to him, replied Mr Priestley, who added he had been asked by Lever to reduce the amount of sub-contracting because of late collection and delivery, damage and pallet loss.
Mr G. C. Walker, distribution representative of Castrol, said he had been specially appointed to sort out the Ellesmere Port refinery's transport problems; to prevent the late and/or wrong deliveries that had been occurring.
Mr G. North, Warrington branch manager, BRS, said he was particularly worried about the traffic to Bristol and the Chesham /London areas for Lever Bros. The return load position regarding the latter area was also very bad at the moment.
The deputy LA, Mr G. K. Newman, said the figures showed an increase of about 20 per cent in the A-licence work. Since the applicant had had no extra A vehicles during the period being compared and the Blicensed fleet carried out a separate retail distributive operation, he would grant two additional vehicles for the A-licensed trunking work.