No Return Loads for C-licensee
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REFUSING an application by Mr. T. Colledge, West Hartlepool, who wanted a B licence for a vehicle of 3 tons now operated under a C licence to carry wood flour on return journeys from Sheffield to Tees-side, the Northern Licensing Authority said last week:
" The applicant is a newcomer and there must be proof of need. If every businessman with a C licence could get a licence for return loads, the whole economic structure of licensing would be undermined, He has failed to prove the need to be authorized to carry any outward traffic, The onusof proof is very heavy in these cases."
It was said, on behalf of the applicant, that he was a wood-waste merchant and was selling this material; which he collected in the West Hartlepool area, to the Rothervale Manufacturing Co., Sheffield. One-way running was found to be uneconomical.
Mr. Charles T. Boot, manager of Rothervale's wood-flour department; told the Authority that his company were "crying out " for wood waste. Mr. Colledge had offered to supply them and they could give him return loads twice a week.
In reply to Mr. J. L. R. Croft, for British Road Services and British Railways, Mr. Boot agreed that they were already using B.R.S. to a great extent.
NO ABSTRACTION FROM STATE SERVICES
OBJECTIONS were lodged by British Railways and British Road Services last week to an application by Mr. L. G. Best, Middlesbrough, for a B licence for a vehicle to carry goods for Stephenson Clarke, Ltd., within a 45-mile radius, but the Northern Licensing Authority granted it and commented that it would entail little or no abstraction from them.
Mr. F. Milton said that Mr. Best's business was growing and a relief driver was now employed. The vehicle worked long hours each day. Mi. P. L. McGlynn, of Stephenson Clarke, Ltd., said that his concern were agents for detergent preparations and one of their contracts involved over 50 separate deliveries to schools in the North They had employed two different hauliers during the year, both of whom had failed them, stated Mr. McGlynn. Mr. Best , had taken over their focal deliveries in Tees-side and had offered a similar service for other districts.
The Authority said that the applicant appeared to be providing a useful service and that the need for the extra vehicle was fully justified.
THE NEXT ISSUE
BECAUSE of the Christmas holidays, the next issue of The Commercial Motor, dated January 1, will be published on Saturday, January 2.