B.R. Compromise on Cattle Haulage
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TN the closing stages, last week, of the 'Yorkshire cattle-haulage struggle, which has been proceeding at intervals during the past six months, a compromise suggestion was put forward. It was the 10th day of the hearing of applications by a large group of East Riding livestock hauliers for the removal of all distance restrictions from their B licences.
After the luncheon adjournment, the applicants' solicitor, Mr. R. E. Patterson, informed Mr. E. Russell Gurney, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, that he had consulted representatives of the objectors, British Railways. If Mr. Gurney agreed to the suggestion, the railways would withdraw their objections, provided that applicants east of a line drawn through Hull were limited to a 65-mile radius for the carriage of livestock, that applicants west of the line had a 50-mile radius, and that all were authorized to operate to the cattle markets at Skipton and Otley.
Mr. Gurney reserved his decision on the 23 applications. Originally there were 31, but eight have been already dealt with or withdrawn. The applications, which resulted from a Hull meeting of East Riding livestock hauliers, were generally based on submissions that the freeing of markets through the decontrol of meat had increased the demand for longerdistance transport of livestock and that railway facilities were unsuitable.
S.T.R. ILL
ECAUSE of illness, S.T.R.. The Commercial Motor costs expert, is unable this week to continue the discussion on profits that he began in last week's issue. He will be out of action for several weeks, He is in hospital.