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Misled By Road! Rail Committee?

26th October 1962
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the Road and Rail Negotiating Committee was made on behalf of James P. Aitken, Inchture, Perthshire, who was called before the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority Mr. Ivo Townsend in Dundee last week to show cause why his licence should not be revoked or suspended.

It was admitted that during the past two years, 50 per cent of his work on A licence had been outside the declared normal user.

Mr. A. Whitehead, for Aitken, submitted that some contractors were a hit vague about the application of normal user, and seemed to think that because they had an A licence they could go where they liked.

Their minds had to be disabused of any such idea. But, in this case, some weight was given to Aitken's position when he appeared before a Road and Rail Negotiating Committee about four years ago. There had been some discussion about him being an owner-driver and therefore being allowed to go about 50 per cent, outside the normal user.

Mr. Townsend said: " It has nothing to do with the committee, it is the Licensing Authority who decides."

Mr. Whitehead agreed that the committee had been wrong, but the applicant, being a layman, was put on the wrong track. The breach was committed unwittingly on behalf of three regula,. customers. It was not a case of going out looking for work.

Mr. Townsend said he accepted Aitken had been doing this tinder a misapprehension but warned him that he must cease doing so at once. He should put in an application straight away for a fresh licence with a new user. In the circumstances he would take no action against the operator.


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