Bolton haulier gets two out of four
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• Because one of its main customers wished to reduce its C-licence fleet, Parkers Transport Ltd., of Bolton, applied to the North Western deputy Licensing Authority in Manchester last week to add four vehicles to one of its A licences. The variation was objected to by British Road Services and British Railways.
Mr. J. W. Parker, director and secretary of the applicant company, said he had been called in to advise Markland Scowcroft (Sales) Ltd. on the administration and maintenance of its 22-vehicle C-licence fleet. Subsequently Markland had decided to restrict its own vehicles to deliveries within 75/100 miles and to ask Parkers to take over its long-distance work.
For BRS, Mr. Lawton submitted that the reduction in sub-contracting figures since November meant other hauliers had spare capacity. Further abstraction would take place if these four vehicles could now seek return loads.
The deputy LA, Mr. G. K. Newman, drew a parallel with the A. M. Bell Transport Ltd. appeal but Mr. J. A. Backhouse, for Parkers, submitted that this was not a contract-to-A conversion for reduced rates, for traffic already carried by the haulier, but was for traffic not previously on the haulage"market". Mr. Newman granted two additional vehicles.