But just who is the expert? LA asks
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DEPUTY Scottish (North) IA Mr. L. A. Wells last week heard the continuation from October 24 of an application for an A licence by Scottish Parcel Carriers Ltd.
The application was for an A licence to authorize five vehicles from Aberdeen to carry "general goods, mainly smalls, within Scotland with extension of 10 per cent in Cumberland, Northurtiberland, Westmorland, Durham, Lancashire and Yorkshire." Three vehicles would be removed from a Glasgow-based A licence and two from a B licence based at Aberdeen.
Mr. F. Connon, solicitor, said his client specialized in the smalls business and had no intention of changing its type of business; bulk haulage was not envisaged.
The applicant did not consider objector Charles Alexander and Partners (Transport) Ltd., to be a specialist in smalls traffic.
The three vehicles which it was hoped to base in Aberdeen from Glasgow were already used for traffic out of Aberdeen. They were based at Aberdeen for a few weeks and then the vehicles were changed. This was done to keep the operation on a proper footing.
Mr. Wells said that if what the firm was doing was wrong he did not think that the simple expedient of changing the vehicles on the licence would make it right.
He granted three vehicles of the five applied for under an amended Normal User, "general goods, mainly smalls, within Scotland (on surrender of three vehicles from Glasgow base)", Commenting on the "specialist" reference, he observed the applicant, as a "specialist", was carrying £30,000 of traffic a year whereas the objector, who "did not specialize in smalls", carried i80/90,000 of that traffic alone out of Aberdeen to the North.
The question surely was, he said, "Who is the expert?"