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A HAULAGE company was warned in. by Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, at Bristol last week that if they offended in the future by permitting their drivers to work excessive hours, they would be liable to have their licence revoked.
It was stated that the company, R. W. Baker (Stonehouse), Ltd., Stonehouse, Glos, had been prosecuted on "many occasions"; the Authority asked for an assurance from them that 'this kind of thing shall not happen again."
• On the assurance being given by Mr. N, A. Baker, managing director, the application for two additional vehicles and a B licence for a maintenance vehicle was granted, on the understanding that the company's vehicles would not go to Avonmouth "nor interfere in the traffic from the Frinoid Works in Gloucestershire at present carried by British Railways."
It was stated that the firm's thirteen ,Aslicensed vehicles each had average earnings of £4,600.
. Three Artics Required : One Granted
A N application by Keynsham Trans.ri.port Services, Ltd., Keynsham, near Bristol, for three articulated vehicles to transport animal feeding stuffs within a radius of 120 miles of operating centre, was reduced to one vehicle by the Western Licensing Authority at Bristol last week. There were several objectors. including B.R. and B.R.S.
. The company's managing director, Mr. S. G. Rodman, said one of the main things they handled was fish meal, for 'which it was difficult to hire vehicles. Drivers also did not like handling it. This was not because the traffic was distasteful; it was because it smelled.
Granting the applicants one vehicle, Mr. S. W. Nelson said they had not produced any evidence to show that three articulated vehicles were justified.
CLEARWAYS PROTEST
THE Urban Clearways proposal for
London had been "watered down to be little more than a straightforward loading and unloading ban directed primarily at goods vehicles," states Mr. R. E. G. Brown, London secretary of the T.R.T.A.
The non-stopping periods have been reduced from four to three hours, he says.
"While any reduction in ban times is obviously acceptable, we do not feel that this in any way reduces the force of the argument used against the experiment. If anything it makes more nonsense of the scheme as a clearway," says Mr. Brown.
NEW OFFICES FOR NEWPORT MEWPORT transport committee are i recommending the town council to construct new offices at a cost of £15,000 at the Corporation Road bus depot.