Heatons granted 8-vehicle switch
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IN a Contract A to A licence switch, Heatons Transport (St. Helens) Ltd. has been granted two additional vehicles on their existing normal user for "general goods, England and Wales" and a further six vehicles with conditions "goods for the Rockware Group of Companies as required".
This written decision follows an application heard by the North Western deputy LA in Liverpool earlier this year (CM July 28 and November 24) when the company applied to switch eight vehicles on contract to Forsters Glass Co. Ltd. to their public A licence.
Evidence was given that open A licences were essential for the balanced service which the company had started with a Middlesex haulier to handle this traffic. The objectors feared abstraction when eight vehicles were released in London seeking return loads to Lancashire. In his decision, the deputy LA said the Rockware Group should continue to have its goods carried in a way satisfactory to the company but it was inevitable that some back loading would result with possible abstraction from other hauliers.