Licence Not Needed by Drivers , Agency rA A PROSECUTION against the
Page 45
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
principal officer in a driver-hire agency failed at Perth on Monday. Allan Burnett, head of the Burnett Labour Agency, Hillhead, Kirriemuir, was found not guilty of using a goods vehicle for hire or reward without holding a carrier's licence.
In a reserved judgment, Sheriff A. M. Prain said Burnett's agency hired out drivers, but did not own vehicles. In this case the Reekie Engineering Co., Arbroath, hired a lorry from David Lawson, a Kirriemuir haulier, and a driver was taken on from Burnett's agency.
The charge was that Burnett should -have had a carrier's licence, said Sheriff Prain. By implication, that meant the journey was not entitled to be made under the C licence which was being exhibited. The idea that a carrier's licence should be required by a person who, on the face of it, neither operated vehicles nor was concerned with any of the goods being carried, was artificial.