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CONTENTS Page 2 A Benbecula operator, said by a vehicle examiner to have a complete lack of preventive maintenance, has had the authorisation on the company licence reduced from 12 vehicles and four trailers to four vehicles and two trailers.
3 Jonathan Lawton relates two horror stories that, he feels, would be less alarming if they were unique.
4 The Eastern Deputy LA's suspension for two months of the operator's licence of Harry Brown was manifestly too severe, says the Transport Tribunal. Page 5 Insider has a lesson for the unwary haulier — illustrating the pitfalls arising from environmental legislation.
7 Ex-LA/chairman of the Traffic Commissioners R S Thornton has written Goods Vehicle Operators' Licensing, published by Kogan Page, as a guide for operators, transport managers, local authority officers, transport consultants and solicitors.
8 Correspondent Chris Butterfield has heard from the Showmen's Guild about his apparent oversight of the Fifth Schedule to the Goods Vehicles (Operators' Licences, Qualifications and Fees) Regulations 1984.