Drivers' Conduct Application Delayed
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BECAUSE a final warning issued last February to a transport company by the Deputy Licensing Authority (Dr. Dawson Sadler) for the West Midland Area had little effect in improving the concern's record of road convictions, an application made at Birmingham, on Monday, was held back for about six weeks.
The applicant was Sheargold's Transport and Garage Co., Ltd., of Mander Street, Wolverhampton. The company applied through Mr. Foley Egginton for the continuation of A licences in respect of five vehicles at present authorized, and for the renewal of a B licence in respect of one vehicle. It was desired to transfer the B licence vehicle to an A licence and it was stated that if that request were granted, the application for the renewal of the B licence would be withdrawn.
Mr. Egginton said that there had been a growth in the applicant's hireand-reward traffic, due to increased output from the customers, and he quoted tonnage figures for the past two years to prove this point. Dr. Sadler referred to the note of an inquiry which he held in February last, in which he had issued a "last warning" as to the conduct of the company's drivers on the road. Since that warning, he said, there had been six other convictions. "One of the rules of my life is never to utter a threat unless I am going to carry it out."
When Mr. Egginton had outlined details of the application, Dr. Sadler sedd :—" I think we can stop there at the moment. I have been considering this question of conduct and I think it would be stultifying the duties of this chair to issue a last and final warning and then give added facilities on the next application."
He announced that he had decided to renew the existing facilities and leave the question of the B licence until he sat in Birmingham next—early in October—when he would see what the conduct sheet of the company was like.