Unemployment plea as LA reduces licence
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• Two convictions and three immediate prohibitions imposed on vehicles since the granting of its operator's licence resulted in A. McLarty Ltd, contractor, Crieff, Perthshire, being called before the LA in Dundee last week.
In mitigation, it was said that a proper system of maintenance and inspection had now been established. Two vehicles would require to be removed from the licence in any case because of a gradual rationalization, but the remaining vehicles were essential, and it would be disastrous for the firm to be without them.
The company had contracts with the Lower Clyde Water Board, three contracts with Perth County Council, one with the Scottish Gas Board and one for Dunalistair Estate.
Eighty people were employed, including office staff, and curtailment of the licence would mean that some of the contracts would not be fulfilled. There could be serious repercussions on the employment situation in Crieff, which was a rather depressed employment area.
Mr A. B. Birnie, the LA, said there had been a flagrant and knowing departure from the undertakings given by the applicant. It had been pleaded that everything was all right now, and that it would cause hardship to the firm if he took away vehicles. But he had to consider the past and not the future.
He reduced the licence by four to 10 vehicles, effective from the end of this week to allow time for alternative arrangements.