B.R.S. Base Switch Opposed at Cambridge

21st September 1962, Page 86

21st September 1962

Page 86

Page 86, 21st September 1962 — B.R.S. Base Switch Opposed at Cambridge

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AT Cambridge last week the Eastern Licensing Authority, Mr. W. P. S. Ormond, deferred a decision on an application by British Road Services who proposed to move four 124-ton vehicles, licensed to run from King's Lynn, to operate from Bury St. Edmunds for the carriage of general goods in Great Britain. The application was opposed by local hauliers C P. Warner, 0. J. H. Smith and R. L. Drakard and Sons.

Mr. Richard Yorke, for B.R.S., said they served customers in the Bury area by sending vehicles from outside bases. Most of the work was carried out from King's Lynn. "Our proposal is aimed at merely avoiding this quite unnecessary dead running. It is purely an administrative application. We are not seeking any fresh traffic."

For C. P. Warner and 0. J. H. Smith, Mr. J. Green claimed that B.R.S. had been operating four vehicles from Bury for 11 months without authority. He added: "These vehicles have been used at Bury without any justification—even (-28 though B.R.S. knew last October that an objection had been lodged against them."

Mr. Yorke replied that the action of B.R.S. in moving the vehicles to Bury could be looked on as so minor that it could be sanctioned without the need for public inquiry. "It may be that all we needed to do was to write a letter asking the Licensing Authority to confirm our action in moving the vehicles," he added.

B to A Granted

THE Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, last week granted an application by Dodd's Transport (Acton), Ltd., to convert an articulated lorry and a van from B licence to A licence.

Mr. Muir said there seemed little doubt that Dodd's A-licence fleet was fully employed and the object was to get rid of the B licence with its strict conditions.