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which to store materials, a builders' merchant delivered sand and gravel direct from the quarries to his customers. Local hauliers had become suspicious of his activities, however, and now they refused to hire vehicles to him.
This was claimed at Newtown, Monmouthshire, last week, when the merchant, Mr. CE. Carter, Welshpool, applied for a new B licence. British Railways and five Welshpool hauliers objected.
Mr. J. W. Scott, for the applicant, said he used a short-wheelbase tipper on C-licence, and because of increased costs the • vehicle was uneconomic unless fully used. There was a great deal of farm building work in the area and he had received many requests from customers to undertake haulage work.
In evidence, Mr. Carter said his
vehicle was 70-per-cent. occupied. Most of the work offered was part or return loads to and from building sites to which he had taken sand and gravel. He had tried to hire from some of the objectors when his vehicle was off the road for repair, and been refused by them.
Mr, J. Edward Jones, for the road objectors, submitted that if Mr. Carter were admitted to the haulage field, every builders' merchant wobld be entitled to a B licence.
Refusing the application, Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, said the witnesses' evidence that builders caused delay by waiting until they had full loads before employing existing hauliers was insufficient to establish a genuine needfor
additional vehicles in the area. He would not call upon the objectors to give evidence.