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Haulie,rs Worried by " User" Suggestions M ANY_ hauliers are disturbed at
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suggestions by the Transport Tribunal that all commodities carried under in A licence must be specified in the normal user. This was stated at Manchester, on Tuesday, by Mr. J. A. Dunkerley, appearing for .Mr. W. D. R. Carman, Scholar Green, Stoke-on-Trent, who wanted to transfer a one-vehicle A licence from the West Midland to the North Western Traffic Area.
Mr. Dunkerley said that if the Licensing Authority felt that adding the word " mainly " at the beginning of the user would meet the carriage of • unspecified goods the hauliers would be quite happy.
However, on studying the GV6 application form, it was obvious that the Tribunal were correct in declaring that " normal " applied to areas and not to goods. This was likely to destroy, the whole benefit of normal user as regards commodities.
Railways Object
British Railways objected to Mr. Carman's application on the ground that he was changing his normal user. Mr. Dunkerley explained that the Carman family operated a fleet of 26 vehicles which were formerly based at Hanley but were now 1+ miles inside the North Western Area. The application referred to only one vehicle, owned by the son, although eight special-A vehicles, formerly operated by W. Carman and Son, had recently been transferred to him.
Mr. W. Carman, senr., still retained his own vehicles, but the whole fleet was under one control, In view of the recent findings of the Tribunal every commodity carried had been specified in the new normal user, although there was no change in the type of work.
Replying to Mr. R. D. Webb, for British Railways, Mr. W. D. R. Carman agreed there were wide discrepancies between the normal user applied for and those for the rest of the fleet, -but pointed out that their needs had been met up to now by the added words "and general goods as required." The normal user of the remaining vehicles would be altered in due course.
Asked by Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, for the appeal decisions concerned, Mr. Dunkerley said the decisions had not yet been published, only announced.
Mr. Lindsay said he had not yet been informed of these later appeal decisions and approached the matter with an open mind, but it would he a monumental task to prepare applications on these lines. In view of this, decision would be reserved.
THE WRONG LICENCE
TOLD by Sheffield police that he did I not need a licence to sell Continental foods from a van, an Italian mill-hand put his vehicle on the road—without a C licence. He also had no insurance, it was stated at Sheffield, last week. Michele Mastrapoala was fined a total of £5 for the offences.