Have 'I.R.S. Unauthorized UnitS for Tees-side Steel Traffic ?
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FROM OUR OWN REPRESENTATIVE STOCKTON-ON-TEES, Tuesday.
'WAVE British Road Services been moving special-type vehicles into the " Tees-side area, without authority, to meet increasing demands for the carriage of structural steel?
This question was raised today when Sidclle C. Cook, Ltd., A. Stevens and Co. (Haulage), Ltd., and Messrs. Sunter Bros. withdrew their objections to an application by Freeman, Volkers and Stuart, Ltd.. Stockton, to transfer a vehicle from special-A to A licence.
The hearing was a continuation of that reported in The Commercial Motor dated tktober 16, 1959. Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, presided on that occasion but today's proceedings were before his deputy,. Mr. G. W. Duncan.
For Cook. Stevens and Sunter, Mr. 1'. H. Campbell Wardlaw remarked that it was unfortunate that a case almost concluded by Mr. Hanlon should have to be started again.
Mr. Duncan had read a letter from Dorman Long (Steel), Ltd., which stated that the company had made arrangements with B.R.S. to overcome transport difficulties with existing licensed vehicles, and that the concern were not prepared to give evidence of need until these arrangements proved inadequate.
Mr. Wardlaw said that this was "startling information." Independent operators were satisfied that B.R.S. originally had no suitable vehicles available for steel traffic, and wanted to know where they had come from and by whom • they were authorized.
The objections, which had been directed against the carriage of long pieces of steel, were withdrawn after an adjournment. There was no objection by the British Transport Commission, • and the application was granted. Freeman, Volkers and Stuart also sought to add to their A licence a big unit which had been employed under a short-term contract but were unsuccessful.
When an application by Cook came up for hearing, Mr. J. L. R. Croft, for the British Transport Commission, who objected, requested an adjournment on the ground that supporting evidence had been handed to his clients only 10 minutes before.
Mr. Wardlaw, for Cook, submitted that this was a pretext to gain time, Mr. Duncan, nevertheless, allowed an adjournment, during which, Said Mr. Siddle C. Cook, the railways and B.R.S. would circulate all his customers. In future, he added, his figures would all be producedon one sheet of paper.
The application was for the addition of a rigid vehicle and two articulated outfits to his fleet. Mr. Cook said that he was unable to cope with customers' demands. Employees had been injured because they had to unload in the dark.
Attempts to hire vehicles from B.R.S. had failed. He had been told that B.R.S. had no pole vehicles in the area, and that all eight-wheelers were fully booked. If this evidence were challenged, he could produce a tape-recording of the conversation.
Harking back to earlier proceedings, Mr. Cook said that B.R.S. had no vehicles licensed in the Tees-side area capable of carrying Dorman Long's longsteel traffic. MUNICIPAL OPPORTUNITIES
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