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Tribunal define 'step-frame'
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ASTEP-DOWN—or step-frame—trailer is
synonymous with a semi-low-loader, according to a written judgment this week by the Transport Tribunal. The Tribunal dismissed an appeal by A. and T. Keogh Ltd. against a grant by the North Western deputy LA to Kaye Goodfellow (Transport Consultants) Ltd. • of licences for four semi-trailers on the condition that while construction of the trailers could be flat or step-framed, not more than four of the latter could be used at any one time.
Before the Tribunal (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, October 14), Mr. J. S. Lawton, for Keogh, said Keogh feared that the description "step-frame flat trailers" was sufficiently wide to enable Kaye Goodfellow to operate trailers the floors of which would be very much nearer the ground.
In their judgment the Tribunal said that a sub-division of semi-low-loaders such as that attempted at an original hearing would be contrary to the generally-accepted classification of trailers in the haulage industry. "While some trailers have lower platforms than others it appears to us that all trailers with step-down platforms fall within the general class of semi-lowloaders and that this class is not capable of sub-division by a reference to the height of the platform from the ground."