Owner-driver Thought He Bought Licence
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AN owner-driver haulier who bought a business and thought that the vehicle licence was included in the sale was refused an A licence for a 41-tonner, with a normal user "general goods between Glasgow and London," by Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, at Glasgow last week.
The licence, which had belonged to the late Mr. Richard Watson, expired on May 3/, said Mr. James Arthur, Glasgow, the applicant. He told Mr. Quin that he had been driving sub-contracted loads between Glasgow and London.
He had operated in good faith and was unaware that the licence had lapsed. The vehicle had been taken off the road in December, 1959.
Mr. Quin said that he would treat the case as an ordinary application and Mr. Arthur should present proper evidence as though it were a new application. He advised the applicant to take suitable legal action against the vendors of the vehicle.
The application was refused.
SCOTS MORE ENLIGHTENED OVER LOADING BANS
I N Scotland the authorities consistently adopt a more enlightened view towards bans on loading and unloading than elsewhere. Scottish officials seemed to share the views of the Traders' Road Transport Association that bans were not only harmful but expensive.
These views were expressed by Mr. H. R. Featherstone, national secretary of the Association, at the annual meeting of the Scottish Division in Glasgow on Monday.
. People in England who prepared and approved. traffic schemes did not always realize how essential the commercial vehicle was to daily life, he said. The Association frequently had difficulty in convincing local authorities that loading bans penalized shops, shoppers, suppliers and municipalities.
In Scotland they appeared to be more " hard-headed " in these matters, Mr. Featherstone added.
TWO APPLICATIONS POSTPONED
0 applications for short-term rlicences in respect of articulated vehicles were postponed by Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, at Stockton-on-Tees, last week, when it was learned that full-term applications had been published in Applications and Decisions.
Messrs. Sunter Bros., Northallerton, had applied to carry machinery, plant and steel in abnormal and indivisible loads to and from all parts of Great Britain. The other application, by A. Stevens (Haulage), Ltd., Great Ayton, was to carry long loads of steel as and when required for Dorman Long and Co., Ltd.
The short-term licences will continue until the substantive applications are heard.