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THC SUCCEEDS IN LOW-LOAD APPEAL
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AN APPEAL by the Transport Holding Company has been upheld by the Transport Tribunal (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, October 6). The appeal was against a decision of the Northern deputy Licensing Authority to grant a B licence to Cherringham (Skelmersdale) Ltd. for a low-loader. The licence was conditioned "Earthmoving machinery within a 10-mile radius of base to or from sites at which the licenceholder has plant employed."
There had been limited use of the lowloader which had previously operated on C licence, and in the month before the public inquiry the equipment had been used on nine days.
The Tribunal took the view that Cherringham should look to its plant-hire and eartlunoving business to pay for its lowloader. Although Cherringham had made out a prima facie case the Tribunal considered it to be a weak one.
The use of the low-loader was in the Tribunal's opinion small and it felt that a grant would throw on to a limited market additional capacity. Such a grant would create abstraction of traffic.
• WORK starts soon on the final section of the £19-3-m Durham motorway—the 51 miles stretch from Carrville to Chesterle-Streel. Mrs. Barbara Castle has authorized Durham County Council to accept the £2,877,828 tender of A. M. Carmichael Ltd.