"Competitors' Rates Too High"
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HER BR. and Road Services aledonian) rates and the special of rural customers were advanced apporting witness in an application Scottish Licensing Authority in nv last week, when M. R. Clark of Kirkgunzeon, near Dumfries, .ranted an A variation adding one of 31 tons.
J. F. Gallic, for the applicant, said 1960-61, barytes traffic had been from the concern's A vehicles and. an A contract, relieving their A s to a certain extent. The A s were now working to full capaaM and could not cope with the is being made on them.
ral witnesses gave evidence of increases in timber, agricultural goods, tallow and similar commodities and of the increasing difficulty of getting vehicles from Clark. They also said that B.R. and Road Services (Caledonian) rates were too high for their customers. Most of the traffic these customers wished carried was from the Dumfries area to Lancashire and a certain proportion to Glasgow and Edinburgh, Mr. W. Quin said that special consideration was required in this case because of the rural traffic involved and ruled that there was a case to answer, limited to tallow, timber and fertilizer within the Southern Division of the Scottish Traffic Area and to the Northern Counties of England.