"Retrograde Step" to Scrap Licensing System
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A DDRESSING a meeting of the ri Industrial Transport Association on " Aspeets of Transport Law," Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw repeatedly referred to the article " Is Goods Licensing Out of Date?" by Mr. Ralph Cropper, which appeared in the February 17 issue of The Commercial Motor. Although agreeing that the article gave sound reasons for scrapping the licensing c system in conjunction with the reorganization of the railways, Mr. Campbell Wardlaw said it would be a retrograde
and a rate step and would lead to chaos
war within the road haulage industry. Much damage would be done whilst the fittest were surviving, and every hostility could be expected to any such proposal from organized haulage. In replying to a related question as to would be whether it benefit the industry if the railways decided to cease opposing applications for licences in the traffic. courts on the grounds of inadequate
return, Mr. Campbell Wardlaw empha.
si on zed that such It was the a contention was k common he Licensing Authority who ultimately determined applications and theoretically he should hearing conduct precisely the same whether or not any objections were made. Mr. Campbell Wardlaw had earliel summarized the major licensing trends of the past year, including the switch from contract A to open A licences and the Merchandise Transport case.
110,000 LOSS
THE operation of local bus services in Thornton Cleveleys cost Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., a loss of £.10,000 more in year, and would probably cost ore in the current financial year, stated the
a
company's general manager in letter to Thornton Cleveleys general purposes
committee.
c
He was commenting on a decision of Thornton Cleveleys Council not to support an appeal against the fuel tax.