Four £5 Fines for Licence Offences
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EINES of £5 each on four summonses were imposed recently by the Plymouth Magistrates on Western Haulage Contractors (Plymouth), Ltd. The company was charged with having used, for work for Plymouth Corporation, a vehicle licensed to carry goods for John Laing and Co., Ltd., and with operating vehicles without licences.
It was stated that when the company received a contract from Plymouth Corporation, Mr. A. T. Parnell, managing director, asked the Licensing Authority as a matter of urgency to transfer the licence of one of the vehicles used for Laing's. An officer of the Licensing Authority pointed out that no licence existed for the particular vehicle.
A fortnight afterwards, an enforcement officer saw three lorries being used to load rubble for the corporation. One of them was licensed to carry goods for John Laing and Co., Ltd., and the other two were unlicensed.
Mr. Parnell told the Magistrates that hitherto it had been the practice to fill up a form and pass it to the Licensing Authority if a haulier wished to sub a28 stitute one vehicle for another. Meanwhile, the vehicle had been used.
[Western Haulage Contractors (Plymouth), Ltd., was recently concerned in an appeal against the Western Licensing Authority's refusal of a licence on the ground that in the past certain offences had been committed. The Tribunal held that the company had not been proved unfit to hold a licence, and reversed the Licensing Authority's decision.]