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Pig Traffic Appeal is Successful

23rd January 1959, Page 135
23rd January 1959
Page 135
Page 135, 23rd January 1959 — Pig Traffic Appeal is Successful
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THE appeal by Mr. R. Goodfellow, Bishop's Waltham, Hants, against a decision by the South Eastern' Licensing Authority, has been allowed by the Transport Tribunal. The reserved decision was announced on Monday Commercial Motor, January 23), The president, Mr. .Hubert Hull, said Mr. Goodfellow would be granted an extension to the conditions of a B-licence vehicle, at present restricted to the carriage of pigs within a 25-mile radius. He would be allowed to carry pigs to the London factory of T. Wall and Sons, Ltd.

Mr. Goodfellow had appealed because his request for a 75-mile livestock radius had been refused.

Mr. Hull said Jilin, in respect of the application to carry livestock, Mr. Goodfellow's case was almost invisible, save that for the nine months ending March 31, 1958, he had, with his other vehicles, been paid £423 by one customel for carrying cattle. There was no evidence as to the amount of the traffic, Part of Mr. Goodfellow's case had been that activities at two markets whicn his vehicle attended had increased and were likely to increase further. But the Tribunal were not prepared to speculate on future growth, especially as it had been said that the expansion would be at the expense of smaller local markets.

The case rested, therefore, on the work done by the vehicle for Wall's and for the Fatstock Marketing Corporation. There was no evidence that Mr. Goodfellow's vehicles had carried the Corporation's pigs outside the 25-mile radius and figures did not show need for expansion. But in the case of Wall's the need for expansion was evident.

The Tribunal were satisfied that Mr. Goodfellow could not switch Wall's traffic to his vehicles which could lawfully handle it, in exchange for a smaller quantity of traffic being carried by those vehicles which were restricted to a 25mile radius.


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