Trade Licenses (3)
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I HAVE DEALT (CM July 26) with some aspects of limited trade licences and explained who those persons are who may be carried on a vehicle used under limited trade plates.
To turn now to another aspect, it is true to say that generally speaking no goods may be carried on a vehicle used under limited trade plates—but there are some exceptions. A broken down vehicle may be carried from the place at which it has broken down to a place of repair or storage and a load may be carried for testing a vehicle or trailer. In the latter case the load must consist of some ordinary form of ballast such as sand, gravel or scrap iron and it must be returned, except in the case of an accident, to the place of loading.
Goods, which are not being carried for hire or reward, may be carried in a new vehicle in the course of delivery to a purchaser or to a railway station, port or airfield for export. This concession may be useful, for example, when collecting a new truck from the manufacturer, to carry a load of spare parts, reconditioned engines, etc.
Limited trade licences may only be used for the following purposes:— (a) For test Or trial in the ordinary course of construction or repair or immediately after completion in either such case.
(b) For proceeding to or from a public weighbridge for ascertaining its unladen weight or to or from any place for its registration or inspection by a council.
(c) For test or trial for the benefit of a prospective purchaser, for proceeding at the instance of a prospective purchaser to any place for the purpose of such test or trial or for returning after such test or trial.
Id) For delivering it to a place where the purchaser intends to keep it.
(e) For demonstrating its operation when being handed over to the purchaser.
(f) For delivering it from his premises to that of another motor trader or for removing it from such premises and taking it to his own.
(g) For proceeding to or returning from a workshop in which a body is to be or has been fitted or it has been painted or repaired.
(h) For towing or carrying another vehicle which, while being driven on a public road has become unable to proceed under its own power, from the place where it has broken down to a place for repair or storage, or for towing a broken-down trolley vehicle.
(i) For proceeding from the premises of a motor trader to a place from which the vehicle is to be transported by train, ship or aircraft or for proceeding from such place to the premises of a motor trader.
(j) For proceeding to or returning from any garage auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or offered for sale.
(k) In the case of a vehicle which is for the time being laid up by its owner, for proceeding from the place where it is stored to some other place of storage.