B.R.S. Overcome Opposition
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DESPITE strong opposition on the question of normal user, British Road Services were last week allowed to substitute six new vehicles on A licence in place of six special A vehicles at their Arbroath, Forfar and Dundee bases.
Mr. W. D. Connochie, for Allison's Transport (Contracts), Ltd., Dundee, claimed that there was no evidence to show that the normal user of "Great Britain" had been maintained by B.R.S. Figures quoted showed that 85 per cent. of the fleet's traffic was in Scotland.
Average revenue of 30s. a ton could not relate to long-distance haulage into England, unless B.R.S. were quoting very cheap rates. A normal user for Scotland, with occasional runs to England, would cover all their activities. For B.R.S., Mr. D. Brown said it was wrong to suggest that evidence of each vehicle's activities should be given when an application was made to replace part of a fleet with more suitable vehicles. That would be necessary only if there was to be a separate declaration of normal user for each vehicle, but in this case a composite fleet was involved.
Wanting the application, Mr. Alex Robertson, Scottish Licensing Authority, said he appreciated the difficulties in the case of a large fleet, where one or two of the vehicles were not going to England. It would be onerous to suggest that every time an operator came up for a change of vehicle he should have to go through the process of establishing normal user.