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"A Deliberate Fraud "—L. A.

18th May 1962, Page 31
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Deletes Two Vehicles

ORDERING two articulated vehicles owned by A. Sanderson (Great Broughton), Ltd.. near Middlesbrough to be deleted from the company's A licence, Mr. J. A. T: Hanlon, the Northern Licensing Authority, at Stockton on Tees last week said he was quite satisfied that "the use of the vehicles was a fraud."

It was a fraud to the road haulage industry, to the public and, in particular, to the objectors, who were people who had been licensed for many years, he said. The decision was to take effect from last Saturday.

Mr. Hanlon also ordered that the remaining six vehicles and trailers on the licence should be re-specified. The trailers, coupled with tractors, must not exceed an overall length of 35 ft.

The company, said Mr. Hanlon, had been using articulated vehicles over 35 ft. in length contrary to undertakings they had given when the licences were granted.

A considerable amount of correspondence had been referred to at a previous inquiry, mainly relating to the undertakings given by the company from time to time that the vehicles would be of standard length.

"Over and over again this company wrote to this Authority and the objectors stating that the trailers would not exceed such a length as to make the overall length of them more than 35 feet.

"In particular, in a letter in October, 1960, the company said that the vehicles would be replacing similar vehicles because the new ones were much more powerful, and the trailers, as a result of the objections, were withdrawn," Mr. Hanlon added,

The new trailers were 36 to 38 ft. ir. length, and extended to 47 ft., and had been used as such.

In March of last year a letter was sent to an objector, Siddle C. Cook, Ltd., in which it was stated that the vehicles were of normal length, and as they were for normal traffic only, it was assumed that that objection would be withdrawn.

At the previous hearing, Mr. Sanderson had admitted that he had used the two vehicles, but said he was justified, in spite of objections raised and undertakings he had given.

Siddle C. Cook wrote to the Authority in March of this year withdrawing their objection because, they said, they had been informed that the vehicles were of a standard length.

Three days later they asked for the objection to be reinstated because the information they had previously been given was inadequate.

In April they wrote again saying that they had found they had been misled and that no vehicles did, in fact, exceed 35 ft.

The company, said Mr. Hanlon, had committed a breach of declaration, irrespective of the undertakings they had given to the objectors, and the use of the two vehicles on the licence was a fraud.

Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for the firm, asked for a stay pending an appeal, but Mr. Hanlon told him: "If I were not so satisfied that this was deliberate, the least I would have done would be to suspend the vehicles for six months. But this was such a deliberate fraud that 1 cannot allow these vehicles on the road."

CHEMICAL-LOAD TESTS THE Government are hoping to have I soon the results of the tests relating to the transport of chemicals by road.

These are elaborate laboratory tests, and they are not being carried out by the Government, but I hope that we shall not have very long to wait for the results now," said Mr. David Renton, Minister of State at the Home Office.

TYBURN TAKEN OVER

THE issued share capital of Tyburn

Road Tank Services, Ltd., bulk liquid road hauliers, of High Wycombe, Bucks, has been acquired by Stephenson Clarke, Ltd., a Powell Duffryn company.


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