Tribunal Affirm Hiring Rule
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AFFIRMING that in the absence of evidence to show that facilities obtainable from sub-contractors were unsuitable, figures indicating the extent to which an applicant hired outside vehicles were insufficient to justify a grant. of extra vehicles, the Transport Tribunal on Tuesday gave reasons for their rejection of the appeal by Siddle C. Cook,*Ltd., Consett, Co. Durham.
As_ reported in The Commercial Motor on August 2. the company had been refused the addition of 16 vehicles to their A licence by the Northern Licensing Authority. For the 'company, Mr. T. B. Campbell Wardlaw had told the Tribunal that the Consett iron Co. had entrusted his clients with an increasing amount of work, which had to be sub-contracted.
The company were pioneers in carry, ing for the Consett Iron Co. and it would be unfair if Cook's were not allowed to share in the expansion of the transport industry of Consett.
The Tribunal observed: "This consideration may command sympathy but it cannot modify the conclusion to be drawn from their [Cook's] own evidence, that suitable and adequate transport facilities now exist for the carriage of the Consett company's traffic."
They repeat that the only certain inference which. can be drawn from the fact that a haulier has to sub-contract some of his work is that there are available transport facilities to meet his customers' requirements.
STARTED IN HAULAGE WITHOUT CAPITAL THE failure of a haulage business, 1 which the partners stated was begun without capital, was investigated at Hull Bankruptcy Court on Monday. -Ernest James • Atkinson, Manchester Street, Hull, and Cyril Wise, Cottesmore Road, Hessle, appeared for public examination.
They admitted a deficiency of £692, claiming that the causes of the firrn's failure were starting without capital, poor trade and the high cost of vehicle repairs.
The debtors' statements showed that they took over a lorry for £126 under a hire-purchase, agreement in NoVember; 1955. Five months later they sold the vehicle for £75 and entered into an agreement to purchase another lorry for
£330. . . . • Until the end of 1956 their business made a small profit, but since the beginning of this year they had been losing money. The examination was closed USERS MT„JST PAY
ANNOUNC1NG a new duty of,. Is. per gallon on oil fuel, Sir Arthur Fadden, the Australian Treasurer, said in his Budget speech on Tuesday that heavy vehicles had been the subjects of complaints by civic authorities for many years, and that operators should pay for any damage they do to the roads.