RHA cries Unkle on licence bid
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• The Road Haulage Association has failed in its objection to a bid for a new licence by Sams Unkles Seafoods of Port Ellen, on the Isle of Islay.
The company had applied for a new international licence for two vehicles and trailers but had been opposed by the RHA on the grounds that the company was unfit to hold a licence and had insufficient finance.
It claimed that director and transport manager William Sams Unkles had operated a company called Islay Shellfish which had gone into liquidation owing large sums to its creditors.
The RHA said that Sams Unkles, when associated with Islay Shellfish, failed to pay a bill for about 23,000 for services carried out for it by RHA member Desmond McGoldrick.
In reply it was claimed that the disputed debt was owed by Islay Shellfish, a company with which Sams tinkles had severed connections in December 1985. Islay Shellfish had not been liquidated but was "dormant" McNamara said, however, he was not willing to grant a full term licence as a new untried enterprise which depended largely on one customer was particularly vulnerable to the possibility of forecasts proving unreliable. Consequently he was only prepared to make a grant until December 31, 1988, when the whole matter could be reviewed.