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Applicants Sought to Save Driver

28th September 1956
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

WHEN. W. Caudle and Co., Ltd., Sheffield, applied to the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority last week to vary their A licence by substituting an eight-wheeler for two smaller vehicles, it was stated that the company had decided to buy an eight-wheeler to save a driver. Also, steel traffic was paid for at 14-ton rates whether a 14-tanner was used or not.

Work was done mainly for British Road Services and Direct Motor Services, a Sheffield clearing house. Wilfred Harrison (Transport), Ltd., Sheffield,

objected. For them, Mr. J. Neilson contended that the applicants sought to do entirely different work.

Cross-examined by Mr. Neilson, Mr. .f. Shaw, secretary of the applicants, said that in 1954 the company had returned to the haulage of steel to major cities. Mr. W. Harrison stated that his vehicles carried steel, but slackness in the motor industry had affected traffic. He could provide an eightwheeler almost any day for other work.

Mr. Shaw submitted that Caudle's fleet had been " static " since 1933 and told the Authority that the 14-ton rate for steel represented a concession made by 13.R.S. to a group of big Sheffield companies at the time of denationalization.

The application was rejected for lack of evidence.

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