Carried for Neighbours Without Licence
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1'1/4 FARMER who had carried for a r-i neighbour with a vehicle having a so-called F licence, was warned last week by Mr. J. LI. E. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, that he should hold a C licence. The farmer, Mr. S. Mosley, of Slaithvvaite, was applying for a B licence for a 5-ton cattle truck and a small van.
Be said in evidence that he bought the two vehicles because existing hauliers had let him down. He had been asked many times to carry for other farmers, many of whom were walking animals up to five miles because of transport difficulties.
He agreed that he was working fulltime as a driver for a greengrocer at Meltham and looked after his '37-acre farm. He had carried cattle for • a neighbouring farmer, but not for hire or reward.
For two haulier objectors, it was pointed out that nearly all the farmers who had signed a petition in support of the application were customers of those objectors, one of whom had six livestock vehicles and the other, two. There was no suggestion that existing operators could not do the work, Mr. Randolph described the application as ambitious, and doubted whether Mr. Mosley could run a haulage business satisfactorily apart from his other activities. The application was refused for lack of evidence,