No Decision on A-licence Bid by Hodgson of Carlisle
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AN application by J. W. Hodgson (Transport) Ltd., of Carlisle, for an A-licence variation to include six additional vehicles was adjourned on Tuesday by the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at Carlisle.
In evidence, a director of the company said that operating some of the lorries with B licences had become a major problem, and a solution was to operate these on A licence. He gave an undertaking that the six lorries involved would operate only in a 100-mile radius. At the moment, he said, his company was operating 25 vehicles under A licences and one other under a Metropolitan A licence.
Our B licences have grown up piecemeal during the years, and now a number of difficulties have arisen. If the application is granted, it will be a considerable advantage to my company and also to the Licensing Authority ", he said.
The applicant company also asked for a short-term licence for two vehicles.
A spokesman for Levers Feeds said at the inquiry that since British Railways had made it clear that they wanted nothing to do with terminal arrangements, their charges for the service had become impossible, and consequently his company had had to revert to road haulage.
There were no objections to the shortterm application, which was granted. But Mr. Hanlon said that the application for the A-licence variation would have to be adjourned until certain matters that had arisen about the company's drivers had been clarified.