No New A Licence: Short-term B Grant an Error W1THO1JT•
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calling on the objectors Vir —BritishRoad Services, a number of free-enterprise hauliers and the railways—Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, last week rejected an application by Mr. Andrew Redpath, Newton St. Boswells, for a new A licence for a vehicle of 3+ tons. The normal user sought was "goods, including livestock, in Scotland and England."
Applicant said that there was a shortage of livestock transport in his area. In 1956 he had earned about £3,000 and this year £5,445, whilst he had paid £45 to sub-contractors last year and more than £900 in 1957, Cross-examined by Mr. J. S. A. Buchanan, for the private hauliers, Mr. Redpath slated that he had carried livestock to Carlisle. Mr. Buchanan said that this would have been outside the terms of his current licence, but the applicant stated that he had held a short-term B licence to carry to and from sales.
Under further cross examination, applicant admitted that his vehicle had
been used to carry livestock to Carlisle and Edinburgh beyond the permitted radius, and agreed that the figures submitted included traffic abstracted from other operators as a result of such operation.
He confirmed that he had hired a number of local hauliers to assist him, and that customers' work was always done, although not perhaps at the required times. Three witnesses testified that they received good service from Mr.' Redpath, but that it had deteriorated recently, probably because of his increasing commitments.
For Mr. Redpath, it was submitted that if he had exceeded his licence conditions it was to assist customers. Mr. Quin defended his decision by saying there was a suggestion that the applicant had operated outside his permitted radius. and that none of the witnesses had stated that he had ever been let down. Re did not consider that the short-term Erlicence (which expired in November) should have been granted.