Sub-contractor Delays Lost Markets in Glasgow, Says Haulier AN operator
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who started a service r't between London and Glasgow with a single vehicle 14 months ago and added another in March of this year, failed to satisfy Mr. C. J. Macdonald, the Deputy Metropolitan Licensing Authority, last Monday that two additional A licensed vehicles were necessary to replace subcontracting that amounted to three times the revenue of the licensed vehicles. The operator was Mr. J. Cockle of 33 Fournier Street, EA. He told the Authority of delays in the use of subcontractors that had caused loss of markets in Glasgow. Supporting him, Mr. D. Coyle, of D. Coyle and Co., Ltd., Glasgow, complained that 50 per cent. of the traffic carried by sub-contractors was unsatisfactory. It arrived late and was not properly loaded.
Asked by Mr. Macdonald for more specific details of complaints he had had, Mr. Coyle said that no record was kept
of whether the goods were delivered by Mr. Cockie or his sub.-contractors. He paid the applicant £6,000 to £7,000 per annum out of a total of £12,000 for all transport, including railways. Mr. F. W. T. Odell, from the District Goods Manager's office of the Midland region of British Railways, said that the Condor rail service which provided a 12-hour transit time to arrive in Glasgow at 7.30 a.m. was reasonably fully utilized, but the 2.18 p.m. departure from Camden (the markets train) was never loaded in excess of 37 out of its total of 45 wagons. Giving his decision, Mr. Macdonald said that he wondered whether Mr. Cockie, by hiring three times as much as he was able to carry, had not overreached himself. Evidence against the use of sub-contractors had to be convincing and in this application to double the applicant's capacity, he had only been given all kinds of generalities.