Parcels Grant Would Be Against Public Interest
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THE Transport Tribunal, in a written reserved judgment, has dismissed an appeal by W. Harrison and Sons (Carriers Preston) Ltd. against the refusal of an application by the North Western Licensing Authority in which they sought a new six-vehicle A licence to enable them to extend a parcels service centred at Preston by the introduction of two runs into Cumberland and Westmorland.
To grant the licence, the Tribunal stated in their judgment, would be contrary to the interests of the public in cumberland and Westmorland. Much of the area was sparsely populated and British Road Services (who had objected at the hearing and were respondents to the appeal) provided a service to a large number of places, both in the sparsely populated part and in the more thickly populated part.
'If the appellants were allowed to run rival services . . . it would, in our view, tend to impair the ability of British Road Services to serve the area generally ", the Tribunal continued.
Even if the appellants could provide a quicker service than was the case now. the Tribunal added, that would not be a sufficient advantage to offset the potential deterioration 01 the parcels service in the area as a whole.