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I Cheshire hauliers James
d John Rootes, trading as .ansport Company and aulage, must wait to see ether local residents will cceed in having limitations [posed on their new
Ferating centre in iddlewich.
The partners want to double air existing international ence to eight vehicles and trailers with a new eration centre at the armington Lane Industrial ,tate.
There were ?resentations from aidents of Cross Lane and e Green when the rtners' application was nsidered by North Western :ensing Authority Roy itchings.
The residents were concerned about the hours of operation and the frequent passage of vehicles along Cross Lane, a residential street which they claim is unsuitable for use by heavy vehicles.
They complained about fumes and noise and about being woken in the early hours by vehicles starting up.
Noise from sand blasting was reported to the environmental health department.
They claimed vehicles left the premises between 4am and 11.10pm and were concerned about the increased size and weight of the vehicles.
James Rootes said he and his brother have operated for six years from a base at Haslington. They moved to Middlewich in April 1984 and if the application is granted, the Haslington site will go.
He maintained that normal operations are between 5am and lOpm with maintenance taking place at the weekend.
The depot is on a large and established industrial estate and the Rootes brothers were directed to the site by the local authority. Other tenants included a ready mixed concrete plant, two garages, a scrap yard and a pallet manufacturer. More lorry traffic is generated by them than from the haulage operation.
For the applicant, it was said that the local authority had received no complaints.
Hutchings has reserved his decision. decided to liquidate Brierley Hill Freight after its two main customers went bankrupt owing the company around 26,700 and 25,200 respectively, as he had been worried that it would be unable to afford to maintain its vehicles properly.
Questioned by Jackson, Barnbrook said Central Roadways purchased three vehicles and one trailer from the liquidator of Brierley Hill Freight.
It was also leasing three other former Brierley Hill Freight vehicles which had been purchased for the liquidator by a company called MayIon.
Barnbrook said he allowed customers 90 days' credit although he requested payment within 31 days. New customers are expected to pay before the job is done.
Jackson said that everyone who used haulage seemed to expect to get 90 days' free credit. That was too long and he could never understand why hauliers allowed so much.
Barnbrook said that with return loads it could be six months before the haulier was paid.
That had not been the problem with Brierley Hill Freight, as the two customers concerned had been good payers. The problem had been the amount of work it was doing for them and the fact that the bankruptcy happened suddenly.