Traders are Prejudiced Against B.R.S.
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'THERE was a prejudice by traders I against employing British Road Services if independent hauliers were available, Mr. R. E. Paterson, for Humber Stores (Contractors), Ltd., stated before Maj. F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, at Bridlington last week.
Mr. Paterson was commenting on evidence submitted by B.R.S., who opposed his clients' application for extra tonnage, that 77 B.R.S. vehicles based at Hull were working to 75-80 per cent, of their capacity. He held that this indicated the need for additional transport.
Mr, A. V. Love, of B.R.S., said that spare capacity was available on foreignbased vehicles leaving Hull for all parts of the country.
Humber Stores sought to replace an A-licensed eight-wheeler by two articulated outfits. The applicants were described as road transport agents for John Good and Sons, Ltd., Hull, shippers. [This company was concerned in an application reported last week.] Mr. R. Moffatt, traffic manager of Humber Stores, said that their average earnings were doubled in a month after they became agents for Good in November, 1959. Good had many complaints about sub-contractors, and these involved Hunter's of Hull (Transport), Ltd., Hull and Glasgow Road Carriers, Ltd., Bramley's Haulage, Ltd., and B.R.S.
Reserving his decision, Maj. Eastwood said that he wanted to check these complaints. The names of all allegedly defaulting hauliers should be sent to him.
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