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Should "Flats" be Given Up for Tankers?

5th June 1959, Page 43
5th June 1959
Page 43
Page 43, 5th June 1959 — Should "Flats" be Given Up for Tankers?
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

IF a tanker is to be granted to carry

flour in bulk, should there be a reduction in the operator's licensed tonnage for the platform vehicles previously employed to carry bagged flOur? This question was put to the Yorksfiire Licensing Authority on Tuesday, when G. W. Lawty, Ltd., Helperthorpe, near Ma1ton, sought to add a tanker of 9+ tons to their A licence.

Mr. R. E. Paterson, for the concern, said that they already ran two bulkflour vehicles, but the • rapid changeover in the milling industry from delivery in bags to bulk transport made it necessary to acquire a third. It was not considered that the time had arrived to give up Platform vehicles. There had been a 17.4-per-cent, increase in tonnage and earnings since February last year, of which 9.34 per cent. was attributable to the work of the company's 16 platform lorries.

Mr. P. Kenny, for the objectors, Hunters of Hull (Transport), Ltd., submitted that the authorization of a number of 15-ton bulk vehicles was bound to abstract traffic from platform vehicles and increase the availability of such types for other work. Figures produced by the applicants, he said, gave no indication of the amounts of bagged flour carried before and after the introduction of the tankers. To justify the application there should be an equivalent surrender of tonnage in platform lorries, he submitted.

Mr. Kenny also pointed out that the two existing tankers had carried about 3,500 tons of flour in a year and earned only £5,000, yet an eight-wheeled platform vehicle had earned almost as much. Mr. Lawty explained that this was because the tankers had not been working. to capacity in their early stages. They were now fully occupied. No other haulier in the area had similar vehicles.

Decision was reserved. Major F. S. Eastwood, the Authority, stated that he proposed to examine the figures which had been produced.


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