Haulters Being Ousted by Glicensees
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TUT-PRICE snoW-clearing operations Is-, by C-licence vehicles in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne area have brought protests from from hauliers. Mr. Frank Milton, area secretary of the Road Haulage Association, has been told that many members had vehicles available during recent bad weather, but their services were refused in favour of C-licensees. He is to take the matter up with the city's cleansing department.
A local haulier who telephoned the department after a heavy snowfall and offered four or five vehicles was told they were not required. Later he saw many traders' vehicles doing the work. The R.H.A. say there is also a tendency in the area for major building contractors to offer their vehicles for this work when the weather holds up construction. As their vehicles are available at cut rates, the haulier is at a disadvantage.
Complaints have also been made about Durham County Council's practice of using farmers' tractors for towing gritting machines and snowploughs when hauliers' vehicles are available. Although no licence is required for this sort of work. tipper operators in the north-east say they are viewing the position with growing concern.
-NO OBJECTIONS TO NEW SPECIALIZED TANKER
SAID to be the only vehicle of its type in the NOrthern Traffic Area, an £11,000 stainless-steel articulated tanker was added to the A licence of J. Forman, Ltd., at Newcastle upon Tyne on Monday. There were no objectors.
Mr. B. Montgomery, for the company, said the 3,600-gal.. tank would have two insulated compartments with coil heating. Pressure discharge would be operated from the engine. The company had four tankers licensed in the Northern Area and 50 in Yorkshire: two of which were of a similar type but smaller. • The vehicle was required to carry a solution . of ammonium nitrate for Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Bfflingham. About 4,000 tons were going to the Metropolitan area. It would also carry hot glues and tallow for British Glues and Callico, Ltd., Walker; and P.V.C. emulsion, a constituent ofpaint, for British Oxygen Chemicals, Ltd., Chester-le-Street.
Mr. G. M. Lilley, a director, told the Licensing Authority that the company's net profit from transport had risen from £4,000 in 1955 to an estimated £16.000 to £17,000 in 1957.
CRANE GOES 800 MILES UNDER OWN POWER
AFIER an 800-mile journey from K. and L. Steelfounders and Engineers, Ltd., Letchworth, a Jones KL 10-10 Fast Travel mobile crane was expected to arrive at Leipzig Fair, East Germany, yesterday. It had travelled by road under its own power except for the crossing to Rotterdam in a Dutch cargo vessel.
The crane can lift 10 tons jacked and 7 tons free on wheels.