Welshpool haulier applies for special trailers
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• The application by T. A. Jones and Co. Ltd. for a new B licence for four vehicles with containers, to carry for five named customers was continued in Welshpool last week. The North Western deputy LA, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, heard objections by five local hauliers and reserved his decision.
Mr. T. A. Jones, of Welshpool, produced photographs of the type of vehicle he required. He explained to the LA that discharge from the trailers shown was by means of a conveyor belt which was operated by an independent motor. When asked by Mr. D. E. Skelding, for the objectors, how the containers were mounted, Mr. Jones said a crane was necessary, which sometimes meant a complete trailer was left at the delivery point. This was, however, an economic proposition.
Mr. D. R. Bayliss, of Yeomans Animal Feed, one of the named customers, said the type of trailer being applied for was needed by his company. Yeomans wanted to tip 12or 13-ton loads but this had proved difficult on its premises because of restricted space. A vehicle which was unloaded by means of a conveyor belt could perform this operation.
The first of the objectors, Mr. C. J. Olerenshaw, of Corfield Transport Ltd., said his company had a self-tipping trailer which was run off its own motor. He agreed that he did not have vehicles standing idle but plenty of tonnage was available on lorries returning from the North West.
Mr. W. Clarke, of G. F. Potter, said that work for Yeomans had amounted to about £476 in March. E342 in April, £60 in May and nothing in June. Mr. Skelding said this decline seemed to coincide with a short-term grant made to Jones.
A haulier, Mr. A. E. Thomas. who had carried cocoa for one of Jones's named customers, said he had vehicles available to carry such commodities as potatoes and cocoa. Mr. Thomas said he did not have vehicles standing idle but rarely refused work Summing up, Mr. Skelding said there were too many vehicles chasing too few cocoa beans and he asked the deputy LA to allow a grant of only one vehicle.
Mr. Saunders said much of the evidence of objectors availability depended on return loads. The customers named by Jones had expressed their need and he thought a case had been made out for a grant of four vehicles. One vehicle would be most unsatisfactory.
Hull plating and testing cases
• Two plating and testing cases were heard at Hull City magistrates' court last week. D. Mason, of Beverley, was fined E 1 0 for breaking section 14 11) of the Road Safety Act 1967. and £5 for contravening section 14 {2). T. Penrose, of Hull, was also fined £10 for the plating and £5 for the testing offence.
T. C. Underwood, of Rotherham, at Rotherham Or) Monday, was fined £5 for using a vehicle without a carrier's licence. £5 for failing to produce a plating certificate, and £5 for having no testing certificate.