Licence Revoked for Ignoring Normal User
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SCOTTISH operator has lost his A licence because-he did not observe • his normal user. Revoking the licence, as from March 1, of Mr. David Yule, 169 Victoria Street, Dyce, last week, Mr. A. Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, said that he would be failing in his duty if he did not protect other hauliers.
Some operators thought that a declaration of normal user, for the purpose of securing a licence, was of little consequence, he added, and that once an A licence had been obtained anything could be done with it during its live years' currency.
That might have been the case before the 1953 Act, but not now. He did not wish hauliers to think that they were wholly tied to a declared normal user. An operator might want to go to London on an odd occasion, but it had to be only occasionally.
Mr. Yule had stated in his application that the normal user was general haulage between Aberdeen and a number of Scottish towns, but an examination of his records showed that the vehicle concerned had worked almost exclusively carrying paper to Glasgow, Edinburgh and as far south into England as Nottingham.
• Mr. Yule agreed that he had been carrying paper to England. There was not the same need for his former daily carrier's service now that some concerns were using ancillary transport.
Mr. Robertson said that the breach of the licence had been gross, but not deliberate. Mr. John Angus, for Yule, gave notice of appeal.
CASH AWARDS FOR SAFETY: DEFIED
SUBJECT to approval by the city council, Coventry Transport Committee arc. to give cash awards for safe driving to bus drivers, even if an application to do so is rejected by the National Joint Industrial Council for the road passenger transport industry. The Federation of Municipal Passenger Transport Employers have told the committee that they could not support the application.
Drivers of other council vehicles are being given cash safety awards.