No objection—so 'weak' claim succeeds
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THE Metropolitan LA last week issued awritten decision granting an application for the variation of a B licence by Van Oppen and Co. (1935) Ltd., shipping and forwarding agents who have four B-licence vehicles operating from a base at London Airport.
The company applied for extension of the conditions on two vehicles to enable them to carry air freight for oil drilling rigs to and from East Anglian ports within 125 miles of the airport. The reason for the application, it claimed, was that hiring arrangements were unsatisfactory.
The LA felt that the evidence produced to justify the claim was extremely thin. But in his written • decision he said: "1 would have refused the application but for the fact that the only people who would be adversely affected by a grant, viz., the hauliers who have been doing East Anglian work, did not choose to object." The LA considered that hauliers engaged in air freight traffic were alive to all possibilities and that had they had good reason to object they would have done so.