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Tribunal told: give this coach an A carrier's licence
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CAN a vehicle be licensed simultaneously as a p.s.v. and a goods carrier? This was a point at issue when the Transport Tribunal in Edinburgh on Wednesday heard an appeal by Road Services (Caledonian) Ltd., Dumfries, against a decision by the Scottish Licensing Authority in respect of Blue Band Motors, Lockerbie.
For the appellant, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw said the vehicle concerned was a 30-scat coach with 300 cu.ft. luggage capa city. In 1965 the operators had been granted a road service licence to operate express carriages between Lockerbie and Glasgow. Early this year, he said, the firm had the idea of going round Glasgow and picking up goods for Lockerbie in the luggage compartment; a measure of conversion had been carried out to provide a compartment on the rear of the vehicle.
He argued that the LA was not empowered to grant a variation of an A carrier's licence for such a vehicle; and, if the LA had such power, there was no evidence to support the grant. It was quite wrong that such a vehicle could be operating simultaneously under both licences.
For the respondents, Mr. A. B. Wilkinson said it would enable the firm to use the vehicle in an economic way in Glasgow when it would otherwise be standing idle.
Mr. Campbell Wardlaw said that, whatever the Tribunal's finding, the respondents could not lose. If the Tribunal supported him in the first of his two arguments, then in effect the respondents could carry on their activity without a carrier's licence.
Mr. Wilkinson submitted that this was a goods vehicle within the meaning of the Act, and referred to sections 164 and 191.
The Tribunal will give its decision later in writing.