Efficiency (Not Rate) Determined Contract
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ALTHOUGH a major building contractor said that 'he received far more efficient service from Peacock Haulage, Ltd., Redcar, than from other local hauliers, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, at Middlesbrough, on Tuesday, refused to grant the company's application to amalgamate two A licences and to add four B licences. They were stated to have four lorries.
There were 18 objectors, including British Railways and British Road Services. Mr. Hanlon said that insufficient evidence of need had been produced.
Mr. Horace Marson said that he had acquired control of Peacock's last March. He had earlier started on his own with one lorry.
In reply to Mr. J. L. R. Croft, for the objectors, he denied that he had cut rates and caused another contractor's vehicles to be abruptly dispensed with. He claimed that on the occasion quoted by Mr. Croft, his rates had been Is. an hour more.
Mr. D. J. Skinner, representing Robert M. Douglas. Ltd., civil-engineering contractors on the I.C.I. Wilton site, said that his company had • begun to employ Peacock's about four months ago after having used five other hauliers in the past three years.
"I. know that when I hire Peacock's -+ransport I am going to get the work done economically,". he aplained. "It is not a question of the rate. It is a question of thework you get done in the hour. The service of the other firms was not satisfactory in the same way as Peacock's."
It was because vehicles were taking too long on jobs that the services of another contractor had been dispensed with, Mr. Skinner added.
His company were developing in the north-east to such an extent that, an area office was needed and transport requirements would increase.
SEVEN-DAY WEEK FOR TIPPERS
APPLYING unsuccessfully to add a B-licence tipper to his three present vehicles, Mr. Mark Macdonald, Linthorpe, told Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, at Middlesbrough on Tuesday, that his lorries had been worked seven days a week for two years, with little time to maintain them.
" My 'application is based on the fact that I have too much work," he said.
Copley Haulage Co., Thornaby-onTees, who objected, said that their 10 vehicles were not fully employed, because of the increasing number of lorries coming into the area.
Mr. Hanlon said that although Mr. Macdonald might have been extremely energetic and his trading figures -just about made out a case, these had not been proved by customer evidence. The increase had resulted mainly from a vehicle being licensed in 1955.