RHA objections
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Future uncertain
rHE Transport Tribunal reserved decisions on three ippeals by the Road Haulage kssociation against 0-licence ;rants by the North Western Licensing Authority in October. The future of the RHA's ippeals against applicants without suitable premises hangs on the tribunal's decision (CM November 14).
Cash and McCall, S. and B. Transport and J. Shepherd had all given private dwellinghouses as their operating centre when making 0-licence applications. At a public inquiry, however, it became apparent that the vehicles were dealt with elsewhere. Mr S. A. Backhouse, for the appellants, submitted that an operating centre involved the physical presence of vehicles at some time. The wording of the 0-licence application bore this out, he suggested.
Acirninistrative centres were often private dwellings or business premises with no space for dealing with vehicles. As such they were Clearly unsuitable for operating centres.
In all three cases before the Tribunal administrative premises had been given as operating bases. A prospective objector could make a decision to object on the grounds of unsuitable premises only on the information given. In these three applications the operating centres given were obviously unsuitable, and the RHA had objected to the applications being unaware that the vehicles were not dealt with at the bases given.
Therefore, the LA should either have refused the licence or insisted that the applicants named the base at which the vehicles were dealt as the operating centre.