Black List for Hauliers Urged
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THE dislike of hauliers for hiring when their work grows beyond the, scope of their fleets was again the theme of a pointed protest by Mr. G. H. P. Beanies (for the L.M.S. Railway Co.), before Sir William Hart, North-Western Deputy Licensing Authority.
" I do not ask, in this case, for the naming of the unsatisfactory hauliers, but I think it is time a stand was taken in the matter," he declared. " Time after time, the hired service is described as unsatisfactory, irregular, undesirable and impracticable.
" I think that those complaining should provide you with a list of the names that you can tabulate with your records, and put to those named when they come as applicants for the re newal of their licences. If the eaornplaints be justified, those who have
assured you that. they are fit :and proper persons to hold 'licences' are-not fulfilling their undertakings."
Mr. H. Backhouse, C.1VI.U.A. solicitor, replied that the railways woUld
themselves .figure on the lists a's un
satisfactory hirers. It was mainly a question of the hired man not being
able to do the work. Vehicles were available only at slack periods,. and a hired man tobk twice as long to load.
Sir William Hart, in .reserving his decision in respect of an extra vehicle . to avoid hiring, saidthat it :was becoming usual to say. that hiring was not satisfactory. If that were the case, then there ought to be definite charges . made and the names takes.