Extensive Breach of Normal User
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THE Scottish Licensing Authority; Mr. W. F. Quin, reprimanded Mitchell Brothers, of Douglas Water, Glasgow, last week for breach of normal user. Mr, William Mitchell asked for a variation of the A licence, to replace one rigid vehicle with one articulated unit.
Mr. Quin said that the firm had been warned in May, 1960, for failure to adhere to their normal user and had continued to operate until September 22, despite the caution given. The breach extended, in some cases, to 67 per cent. of traffic.
For the firm it was said that there was a distinction between irregularities covering three vehicles and 10 other vehicles. In respect of the three, it could not be denied that the firm had operated outside the permitted 40-mile limit. Insufficient thought had been given to the situation in 1957 when .seeking a normal user.
B10 Mr. Quin said that the application would stand in abeyance pending further investigation.
Economic Eight-wheelers
-1"HE economy of 8-wheel operation
was advanced by Hugh aelland and Sons, Chryston, at Glasgow last Friday, as the justification for an A licence variation, replacing two 4-wheel units of 4 tons each by one 8-wheel unit of 8 tons. Normal user was unchanged.
The Clelland fleet consists of 27 vehicles and nine trailers. Mr. Clellarad said that the proposed change would leave the position precisely as before except that the larger unit would permit operation with one man and allow economies of operation, Mr. Quin granted the application, noting that the fleet activities would be reviewed in an application now pending,