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"Hauliers Refuse my Saturday Loads"

19th September 1958
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

BRADFORD hauliers will not go to Hull and Goole with urgent loads on Saturday mornings because they know the chances of securing return traffic are slim, Mr. J. H. A. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, was told last week. He was hearing evidence by Mr. N. Clague. manager of W. Mathewson and Co., Ltd., shipping and forwarding agents, who supported an application by Mr. Edwin Holt, 64 Tyersal Avenue, Bradford.

Mr. Holt wanted a B-licence to carry wool and wool tops for Mathewson's within a 30-mile radius. Mr. Clague pointed out that Mr. Holt was already willing to do this, but it meant taking his A-licensed vehicle off local work.

Answering Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for the British Transport Commission, he said British Road Services had sometimes refused traffic from him. He denied that he gave them part loads while the full loads went to Mr. Holt.

In evidence, Mr. Holt said Mathewson's wanted a vehicle available all day, but he had been refused 3 contract licence because they were not manufacturers and did not own the goods they wanted carried. At present he was having to hire his father to do local work and to carry to Hull and Goole.

Mr. Atkinson replied that the need for a local vehicle would not be disputed, but if Hull and Goole were included in the conditions he would call B.R.S. to show that traffic would be abstracted.

Mr. Randolph accepted this submission and asked Mr. Holt if he would agree to delete Hull and Goole. Told that Mr. Holt would not do this, he refused the entire application on the ground that the customer's evidence differed from that of the applicant. The case would be heard again, he said, when there was proper evidence to support it.

E135,000 PAY AWARD

APAY rise of 3 per cent, was awarded by London Transport, last week, to 10,000 road and rail workshop staff. Backdated to June 30. the increase will cost the L.T.E. /135,000 a year.

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