Licence Sought to Hire 30 Lorries
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,IMING that their application was robably unprecedented in licensing y, Highland Haulage, Ltd., last sought an A licence to enable them .e 30 vehicles between September spril. Their object was to reduce
intracting, which last year ned to £70,000. Objections were 1 by the British Transport Cornin and 31 private hauliers.
W. 13. Connochie, for Highland ge, said they wanted a normal user Fish, grain, potatoes and timber, y from North Scotland to destina n Scotland." At present three types uliers were employed as sub-conrs—A-licensees, B-licensees and 1 of short-term B licences. But ners had complained about the ability of sub-contractors' vehicles bout inefficiency.
W. H. MacLennan, managing H, said in evidence that as the 30 es would be used for only eight ,s of the year, the company could ty new lorries. During the summer s they had difficulty in keeping existing 42 vehicles employed. but ieptember to April there was a huge id for facilities
re would be no difficulty in getting for the period because men yed by coach-companies during the er would be available. If the appliwas successful the number of Ferm licences which had to he d each year to other operators be reduced.
wering Mr. John Angus, for some of the objectors, he denied that Highland Haulage wanted to take control of seasonal traffic out of the Licensing Authority's hands. He agreed that he would have to go outside the Highlands to get suitable vehicles on hire. Local hauliers who carried herring from the ports to the company's base for transshipping to trunk vehicles would still be used.
Mr. MacLennan explained that the reason the proposed normal user was Scotland, when most of the traffic was for England, was that his special-A vehicles would do the work and the hired lorries would take their place in Scotland.
Mr. Alex Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, adjourned the case until today.
• PLAXTON'S STRIKE ENDS A TWO-DAY strike of workers at Z—V Plaxton's (Scarborough), Ltd.. coachbuilders, came to an end last Friday when the company agreed to dismiss a man who was not in the right union. Members of the National Union of Vehicle Builders had refused to work with him because he was in the Amalgamated Engineering Union and refused to seek a transfer.
Afterwards, the company stated that they were holding talks with the Union to ensure that a similar stoppage did not occur again. The procedure for engaging men would be discussed, although in this case the N.U.V.B. were consulted before the man was taken on.