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Coals to Newcastle !
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THE tipper " invasion " of the KampI shire operators, all sub-contractors to Mid Southern Tipping Group Ltd., into Essex territory ("The Commercial Motor", September 10) illustrates the intimate connection between rates and licensing.
Some of the Essex objectors claimed to have suitable vehicles to do the work: the premises of one operator (who had not been asked by Hoveringham Gravels Ltd. if he could help) were less than a mile from the quarry concerned! How can it be economic, or profitable. for the Hampshire operators to work their lorries 70 miles from home, with (I presume), drivers' lodgings to meet on top of other expenses?
I know that this type of operation occurs from time to time in the tipper sphere, and the cut-back in road expenditure will, perhaps, cause it to increase. In the Hoveringham quarry case there has been some fortuitous publicity; there must be instances, however, where similar incursions by groups of operators into the lusher pastures of neighbouring counties is known only to those most closely involved.
If an acute shortage of tippers arises suddenly near Portsmouth, what will the South Eastern Licensing Authority do about it? He might feel impelled by clamant customer need (as in the Hoveringham Rainham quarry case) to grant additional short-term licences. It would be paradoxical, in that hypothetical (but not impossible) event if the Essex tipper men by guile, stealth or native cunning, presented themselves before Maj.-Gen. Eirnslie as the only possible source of vehicles.
Licensing is difficult enough as it is: any more coal for Newcastle?