Tribunal Say : Haulier Punished Enough
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T'ppeal by Duncan Logan (Plant), Ltd., against the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority's refusal to vary an A licence to cover a converted vehicle, succeeded at Edinburgh last week. The Transport Tribunal agreed that the company's articulated low-loader, which had originally been a tipper, should be allowed to carry building and civil engineering plant in Moray, Nairn, Inverness, Sutherland, Ross and Crornarty and Caithness.
Mr. Hubert Hull, president, stated that the company claimed to have been
unaware that they were doing anything wrong until they were told that the conversion was improper. However, they
were not entirely innocent in the full sense of the word, as they continued to operate the converted vehicle until their application for a licence variation was heard in October.
In refusing the application, the Deputy Licensing Authority had granted a short
terin B licence so that the company could carry for associated concerns. This meant that they had been unable to do
work for other people during the past seven months, which had cost them about £300 or £400 net eevenue. The Tribunal thought it would be dangerous to the interests of customers to hold that the one low-loader already operating in the Highlands was sufficient. In fact, had anyone else applied, the grant would have inevitably been two low-loaders. It was right that the company's punishit-lent should now be brought to an end, although the Licensing Authority would judge whether the Tribunal's views on need were correct when the licence came up for renewal. This was really the only point on which the Tribunal and the Deputy Licensing Authority differed.
TRIBUNAL QUASH SUBSTITUTION A GRANT by the Scottish Licensing Authority to Mr. John Campbell, Montgomery Street, Irvine, was overruled by the Transport Tribunal, last week, on an appeal by the British Transport Commission. The Licensing Authority had allowed Mr. Campbell to substitute a 71,-ton vehicle for a 3i-ton lorry and an articulated outfit weighing a total of 41,, tons. The Tribunal agreed that their decision should not come into effect until the end of July, so that Mr. Campbell could apply for a short-term licence limited to the carriage of goods within his present declaration.
MORE MONEY THAN EXPECTED
MORE money than expected was being yielded by a Id. fare increase introduced in April, Mr. W. Mayes, general manager of Darlington Transport Department, has told the local transport users' consultative committee. He stated that there might be a £35,000 surplus instead of one of £30,000, although the extra money might be needed to cover a wage increase.
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