Applicant Called to Explain -Breaches
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ECAUSE of certain irregularities revealed when an examiner inspected the company's records, the Western Licensing Authority on Tuesday called A. D. Forsey (Transport), Ltd, Warle, near Weston-super-Marc, to a public inquiry, although objections to their applications for B licences had been withdrawn.
' The company wished to operate seven vehicles on meat transport, Six on the haulage of fats and animal by-products; and one on scavenging. They also ran 13 vehicles under special A licence.
Mr. T. D. Corpe explained that an examiner had found a number of breaches of the drivers' hours regulations. It was frankly admitted that record sheets had not been kept . properly. Operation beyond a stipulated radius of 40 miles had been unintentional.
Mr. Leslie James, formerly associated with H. H. V. Guest, the Bristol Haulage Co., Ltd., and British Road Services, was now in charge. Mr. James assured the Authority that there would be no repetition of the breaches.
Granting the application, the Authority said that he had written to the drivers concerned.
DANGEROUS ILLUSION
THE notion that lack of competition within forms of transport could be made good by competition between forms of transport was one of the most dangerous illusions in the modern world of transport, Sir Reginald Wilson, a member of the British Transport Commission, told the Irish Section of the Institute of Transport in Dublin on Tuesday.
Fair competition would not he achieved by protecting bus operators from each other to such an extent that they commanded large _ streams of monopoly traffic, which, being physically or economically safe from the railways, could be " taxed " to finance competition for traffic which could also be handled by rail.
MR. ELMORE LEAVES
THE secretary of the Western Area road-rail negotiating committee, Mr. Leslie Elmore, is to take up an appointment in London. Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, and Mr. T. D. Corpe on Tuesday expressed their appreciation of his work.
RAIL TRAFFIC POLICY
MR. D. BLEE, traffic adviser to the British Transport Commission, said on Tuesday that the railways did not intend to attract traffic which ought, for economic reasons, to be carried by road.
SYDNEY'S• BUSMEN PROTEST SQYDNEY was without bus services on Tuesday because of a strike by employees of the Government transport undertaking in protest agaMst the introduction of one-man buses.