astern LA reserves ecision on case with !ommon Market vertones
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Nhen Mr H. E. Robson, the Eastern 'eserved his decision at a public inquiry id that the case was an important one, licated and with overtones of the non Market. He was hearing an ;ation for a new licence for four les and four trailers by A.G.S. mental transport Ltd adjourned from veek (CM January 12).
r R. G. H. Ward, for the applicant, !aged the accuracy of the lists of bited vehicles produced in evidence by DoE at the earlier hearing. He :nded that of the 27 vehicles listed as [ging to the Danish AGS company 17 were admitted. Mr Robson said it nore to the point to establish whether pplic ant, Mr R. Clayton, was the agent LII of the vehicles listed. There was rice that Mr Clayton had accepted bition notices for these vehicles.
r J. E. Brooks, senior traffic examiner, I that he had seen Mr Clayton along a number of other operators at rich docks in August and explained the ings of the Foreign Vehicles Act. Since 1 Danish AGS vehicles had arrived at Harwich overweight.
Mr J. Batchelor, a vehicle examiner, told the LA that he had examined Danish AGS vehicles at Harwich during September and had issued four prohibitions, the main complaint being unfit tyres. Mr Clayton had been specified as the vehicle agent in each case.
Mr Clayton denied that his duty as an agent for Danish AGS extended to a responsibility for weight regulations. His main job, he said, was to obtain traffic for the return trip to Denmark.
Mr Ward said that the evidence which had been submitted relating to Danish vehicles returning to the docks to collect and deliver goods which had been left as excess weight was hearsay and in his opinion inadmissible. In his opinion his client should not be placed in the position of bearing the brunt of Danish AGS activities over which he had no control; his part as an agent did not stretch to responsibility for these activities, said Mr Ward.
Mr Robson told the court that owing to the complications of the case he needed time to consider it,