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Mr. Bibbings Sums up R EVIEWING the licensing position in the
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Yorkshire Traffic Area, following two years' operation of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, at a meeting of members of Skiptoa Sub-area of Associated Road Operators on Tuesday last, Mr, F. G. Bibbings (Yorkshire Area secretary) said that the Yorkshire Licensing Authority appeared determined to maintain the status quo. This meant the restriction of a haulier's business to its position during the basic year, which was one of the most depressed periods in the nation's industrial history.
Mr. Bibbings remarked that the increasing difficulty of obtaining permission to replace a vehicle by one of a heavier unladen weight meant, in some cases, that operators were even denied the right to acquire a vehicle of a more suitable type. Another criticism was that licence applicants were forced to divulge to the railway companies, in undue detail, particulars of their businesses, concerning rates, customers, tonnage, traffic receipts, etc. He asserted that the railway companies had been granted large increases in road vehicles and tonnage on evidence which, if put forward by hauliers, would not be regarded as sufficient to warrant the issue of licences.
Unity of action could alone save hauliers, said Mr. Bibbings, in urging the need for increasing the membership of A.R.O. The individual operator could not possibly hope to stem the tide of restriction and railway opposition, threatening to engulf him.