Haulage a Closed Corporation
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" Pri HE haulage trade, as you probably I realize now, is a red-hot closed corporation. It's extremely difficult to get into it, and it is jealously guarded by those in it against those who are out."
This was stated by Mr. Harold Sturge, • Thames Court magistrate, last week when fining Allan John Biddle, New Cross Road, London, S.E.14, £12 with £6 6s. costs. Biddle was charged with possessing a document so closely resembling an A licence as to be calculated to deceive. Mr. M. Worsley, prosecuting, said that a traffic examiner saw on a lorry owned by Biddle what appeared to be an A licence, but on closer examination turned out to be a forgery.
Biddle admitted that he had made it himself. He told the court that he was trying to earn a living in the best way 1 knew how." A licences, he said, were practically impossible for a man in his position to obtain unless he had £1,000.