Contract A Licence Earnings
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L.A.'s Form Not Acceptable to Customer
AN attempt by the Metropolitan PA Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, to ensure that Contract A licence hauliers are regularly and constantly employed, eliminating the possibility of them seeking other (illegal) work, almost backfired on hint recently when H. Davy and Sons Ltd. of Walworth applied for, and were granted, a nine-vehicle switch from Contract A to A licence. But for the fact that the applicant wanted to carry for its, hitherto, contract customer plus subsidiary companies, Mr. Muir could have found himself in an embarrassing position.
To assist prospective Contract A licensees in the type of contract agreement they should seek between themselves, Mr. Muir and his staff have devised a form known as " MTA.56 " which is given to everyone who asks for a Contract A licence application form G.V.2.
MTA.56 is not a statutory document but a memorandum of agreement with blank spaces to be filled in with the names of the parties, the nature of tl'e work to be undertaken, and so forth. Clause 3 of the agreement reads us follows:—
The Hirer guarantees that, subject to strikes, lockouts, enemy action. Act of God or other abnormal condit:ons over which the Hirer has no control and subject also to the said vehicles (and any vehicles which may be substituted therefor) being kept in good running order and being appropriately authorized in a carrier's licence issued under Part IV of the Road Traffic Act, 1960, the annual earnings of any such vehicle will not be less than the sum in the Schedule hereto corresponding to the carrying capacity of that vehicle, that is to say they w:11 be Ps (Continued at foot of page 32)