Respondents Not Called: Appeal Dismissed
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[WITHOUT calling on the respondents, IT the Transport Tribunal in London, on Monday, dismissed a Suffolk haulier's appeal against a decision of the Eastern Licensing Authority.
The appellant, Mr. C. P. Warner (Warners' Transport), Tollgate Lane, Bury St. Edmunds, had sought an A licence permitting him to increase his fleet by four vehicles, two of them articulated. The Authority had granted a licence for one articulated vehicle.
Respondents were the British Transport Commission and R. L. Drakard and Sons, Ltd„ Hartest. Bury St. Edmunds.
Mr. M. Dunbar Van Oss, for Mr. Warner, told the Tribunal that his client's fleet—five vehicles at the time of the original application—was being overworked. "After a year of this pressure he has reached a point where, if he is left with his present resources, he will find it difficult, if not impossible. to maintain these vehicles as he should," said Mr. Van Oss, Mr. Hubert Hull, president, said that the Tribunal saw no reason for differing from the Licensing Authority assessment of the applicant's requirements.
YORKS C-LICENCE POOLING THE Yorkshire Licensing Authority has granted a general dispensation to allow C-licensees to carry each others' goods, so long as the traffic would have been carried in ancillary vehicles. He is believed to be the last to have done so, although permission has been in force for some time in his area to allow groups of traders to pool their transport.
POWERS TO MOVE VEHICLES DOWERS to remove vehicles left at places where parking is prohibited, or where "no waiting" is in force, will be given to the police in new regulations under the Road Traffic Act, 1956, which the Minister of Transport is soon to lay before Parliament.