Inter-Market -.Operator Refused 10 Vehicles "THE trouble of looking around
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and telephonin-g for transport is what a clearing house is for," said Mr. C. J. Macdonald, the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority in 'London last week when he refused an application by Mr. L. Ward, trading as the Inter Markets Delivery Service of James Street, -W.C2, for sik vehicles on a B licence to operate within 60. mites of 'base and four. on A-licence to operate between the railway termini, the London docks and the of Rochester, Chatham, -Shorehain, Southampton and Portsmouth and 'the chief provincial markets. There were 17 road objectors,
• Mr. L. Ward. said that he started a fruit and vegetables clearing houSe for the Covent Garden agents and importers in 1958, and in each of the two years since then the business had almost doubled.
He said that the six vehicles on B licence were also to be used for his own goods. He was also providing a fruit and vegetable buying service but agieed that he had no vehicles upon that work on a C licence at the present time. Asked about the increasing amount of subcontracting, Mr. Ward said that as his business grew bigger, hiring vehicles became more difficult. Mr. Macdonald interposed: "It seems to me to show that the more transport you have wanted, the more you have been able to obtain."
There was no . convincing evidence pointing to the failure of the existing authorized transport said Mr, Macdonald.
HAULIERS MUST WATCH POINTS.
TCbe successful a haulier had to gear himself to meet the demands of his customers even when they involved deliveries at short notice or at unusual hours, and only those operators who were prepared to give such service could expect to obtain the more remunerative traffics, said Mr. E. S. -Swann, transport officer of the Metal Box Co., Ltd. (Speke branch), at a dinner given by Frank C. Jackson, Ltd., the Cheshire operators.