Authority Can Take Away These Licences
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THE suggestion that a Licensing Authority could not suspend or , revoke a licence because a vehicle had -been altered was rejeated, last week, by Mr. 1. A. T._Hanlon, Northern Licensing _Authority. He revoked a.special A licence held by George Allinson, Etherky Dene, Bishop Auckland, on the ground that the weight of the yehicte concerned had been substantially incieased without permis
sion, . • ' Mr. Hanlon declared that if he did not have the power to act in such a case the owner of any licence could increase his vehicles' weights at will. A licence had to be used for the vehicle specified on it.
. Announcing the revocation, Mr. Hanlon said the licence was issued to Mr. Allinson in 1955 to cover a vehicle of .5 tons 44 cwt., but the following year he began operating an eight-wheeler of just
• under 71 tons.
Mr. Hanlon said he had every sympathy with Mr. Allinson, but he must have known what he was doing, although perhaps. he did not realize that he was _cheating other hauliers. Mr. Allinson had put in an application for another A licence, so justice would be done if a ' grant for a vehicle Of 5's tons were made. Mr. Allinson was not the sort of man -to be put off the road, but it. would be :wrong for him to be allowed to benefit at the expense of other hauliers who
• operated their licences properly. • • Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for Mr. ,Allinson, asked for the revocation to be suspended for 14 days so that the ques[kin of an appeal could be considered. and this was granted.