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"Weight Changes Harm Other Hauliers" A A HAULIER who operates a
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lorry, heavier than the weight stipulated on his licence is not doing justice to other people in the industry who keep to the weights originally granted. This was stated last week by the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A, T. Hanlon, when J. Stamper and Co. (Haulage), Ltd., Penrith, admitted that a special A licence they held detailed a vehicle of 5 tons 4 cwt. 82 lb., whereas the lorry being operated actually weighed 7 tons 18 cwt. 9 lb.
• Stamper's wanted to exchange the special A for an A licence. Their managing director, Mr. John Stamper, said that when the vehicle was bought from a Newcastle upon Tyne dealer it was a sixwheeler', and was operated as such for three or four months. In October, 1956, it was modified at Newcastle, returning to the road as an eight-wheeler capable of carrying 16 tons. Previously the payload had been 12 tons. It was not disputed that the extra Excise duty had been paid.
Answering Mr. Hanlon, he said he was one of the many hauliers who believed that an increase in unladen weight did not have to be declared to the Authority provided it was due to a body modification, or to a change of engine from petrol to oiler. He thought notification could be given on renewal.
Mr. Hanlon said this meant that any haulier could acquire a six-wheeler and • then convert it to another weight. People who had done this could not be said to be doing justice to other hauliers who kept their vehicles at the correct weight: He adjourned the hearing for the company to produce accounts, together with paid cheques for the purchase and modification of the vehicle, and a manufacturers' statement about its original unladen weight.
SEASIDE EXCURSION OPERATORS FINED
FOR picking up passengers at unauthorized points and cutting the time of their journeys between Lancashire nod Devon, Stretford Motors, Ltd., Stretford, Manchester, were fined a total of £152 at Manchester last week. They were fined £20 on each of six charges of using unauthorized points, and £2 each on the 16 charges concerning journey times.
Mr. D. J. Turner, prosecuting for the North Western Traffic Commissioners, said journeys to Ilfracombe and Torquay had been completed in a day when, to conform to the licences, the trip should have taken two days. Passengers were also alleged to have boarded vehicles at places not specified on the licences.
Mr. E. A. Whitehead, defending, said that when the present owners acquired the business, a leaflet was in circulation describing a one-day journey to Torquay, and this did not seem unusual. Now they were having difficulty in persuading some of the more popular south coast hotels to accept four-day bookings.