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AT Penrith last week a Carlisle haulier who told the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, that he employed 60 drivers, was asked how he managed to control them.
Mr. J. B. Watt, managing director of J. and W. Watt, Ltd., was applying for the variation of his A licence to substitute one 31-ton vehicle for a 3-ton vehicle.
Mr. Hanlon, after complimenting Mr. Watt on the firm's very clean record, said he had been told that long-distance hauliers could not possibly control their drivers. He personally did not believe that and said that if drivers were instructed to make transfer charge calls from where they were staying a check could be kept on them.
Mr. Watt replied that that was the system he used and he experienced no trouble at all.
Mr. Hanlon went on to further compliment Mr. Watt, who was represented by Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, on the " admirable" way the case had been presented. He granted the application.