"Find Work for Idle Vehicles"
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" IFa man has idle vehicles, my view —and I will never change it—is that he will have to get round and look for work," declared the Northern
Licensing Authority at Carlisle, last week. The opposite view was taken by a prominent West Cumberland haulier, Mr. Harry Pickthall, of Clcator Moor, who appeared as an objector to an application for a B licence.
He said: "1 don't like running round chasing people. Most hauliers have recognized customers and we don't usually go chasing one another's."
"1 agree you don't want to go round pinching other people's customers," replied the Authority, "but two people here are no one's customers at the moment."
The Authority granted the applicai ion of Mr. William Huddart, Cocker mouth, for a B licence. The applicant wanted more work for his lorry. His request for a 100-mile radius was refused and his work was limited within 25 miles for three customers who appeared in court to support his application.
The objectors were the Road Haulage and Railway Executives and several local hauliers. Supporting the application, Mr. William Winder, traffic manager of a big Cockermouth concern of building contractors, Thomas Armstrong, Ltd.. said that they had 30 vehicles of their own but still found it necessary and difficult to hire extra transport.
Looking round at the objectors, he added: " If these contractors need any work they have only to ring Thomas Armstrong's. If I was a contractor, and wanted work, I would go out and ask for it."
The Authority: "That is my view, too. l listen so often to people who sit in their offices and say they have all these vehicles and can't do anything. Let them get around."
LOADER FOR FERGUSON TRACTOR
THE numerous uses to which the Ferguson tractor can be put have been exploited by the Chiltern Tractor Co., Ltd., Woodley Aerodrome, Reading, Berks. The concern have developed the Rearloda, a loading device which can quickly be fitted by
one man to the Ferguson tractor.
Special features claimed for the Rearloda include a double-action heavy-duty spillage-free lift. Extra weight on the rear wheels is stated to provide freedom from wheel slip on soft ground. An 8-ft. lift and a 10-cwt. "tear-out" load, and provision for hauling spreaders and trailers without removing the loader from the tractor are other characteristics.
The attachments comprise a manure fork, general-purpose bucket, craning jib and a beet fork. The Rearloda unit, less attachments, costs £62 10s. WITNESSES' RAIL FARES PAID BY APPLICANTS
WHEN the hearing of applications VV by G. H. Austin and Sons, Ltd., Woodeaves, Staffs, and Messrs. M. A, and C, J. Whieldon, Rugcley, to carry airmen on week-end leave from Hednesford to various destinations was resumed before the West Midland Licensing Authority, last week, it was stated that the companies had paid airmen's rail fares home, so that they could compare the train service with the proposed road service.
The men were asked by the companies to take details of the times and length of waits between trains and the duration of journeys. They agreed to do this.
One airman told the court that the rail journey to High Wycombe took 14 hours longer than by coach. Others spoke of the low cost of road travel and their preference for it, as they could sleep aboard a coach without interruptions from ticket inspectors.
The case will be resumed next month. Earlier proceedings were reported in The Commercial Motor on March 13.
LIGHTS AND LAY-BYS
LORRIES parked on lay-bys on the main roads must show their lights. This was affirmed by Penrith magistrates last week, when the driver of a heavy lorry was fined 1 for having his vehicle unlit while in a lav-by on the Penrith-Carlisle road.