Rate-cutting Charge Dismissed
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A SUGGESTION that accepted haul
age rates in the Northwich area might be undercut if an application by Mr. R. E. Nixon, Lower Whitley, near Warrington, were granted, was made on Monday to the North Western Licensing Authority, Mr. F. Williamson. He was hearing Mr. Nixon's application for the transfer of five special-A-licence vehicles to A licence, with a normal user covering 13 named traffics within 150 miles and occasional journeys to the south, south-east and London.
Mr. J. Barrow, managing director of J. W. Barrow, Ltd., Northwich, who objected, said they had a contract A licence with 1.C.I., Northwich. Mr. Nixon's vehicles had been entering the area and taking work from regular hauliers, with the result that Barrow's customers had complained that their rates were too high in comparison with Mr. Nixon's.
Mr. J. A. Dunkerley, for Mr. Nixon, suggested that in the past there had been a little group of hauliers in the Northwich area monopolizing 1.C.L traffic. . They resented a new man entering the field and possibly taking traffic away from them because he was able to operate at a lower, economic rate.
MT. H. Robinson, for Barrow's, submitted that traders would always take advantage of a reduction in rates. To this, Mr.-Dunkerley replied that there was nothing wrong in reducing rates, provided they were reduced to an economic level.
Mr. Williamson said the objectors had failed to show that there had been undercutting of rates or that facilities were excessive. He granted the application.