oad Service Licence Amendments
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slOR amendments to procedure in arying road service licences were this week by The Public Service les (Licences and Certificates) nclment) Regulations, 1961, which into force on Monday.
st, Traffic Commissioners are not obliged to notify all interested ns of publication of such applicaSecondly, subject to publication .e decision, the Commissioners can publication of such applications :onsideration of objections. when the tion is for a peiicid of up to eight
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te Older the Safer?
DER drivers tend to have fewer ccidents than younger men with the length of service. This was one of soints made in a paper, based on accident experience of London sport bus, coach and trolleybus rs for the years 1957 to 1959, pre
d at a two-day conference convened le British Occupational Hygiene ty last week. The general title was s Vehicle DriverSome Aspects of :onment and Safety," and the conce was held at the Traffic and Safety ion of the Road Research Laboraat Langley. Bucks.
e paper based on a study of London drivers was given by Mr. C. J. wall of the London Transport utive. Punched card records were 3 of all collisions with moving or objects or persons. Many of these of trivial nature, a fact which must ,orne in mind when considering the lent rate of 1.37 per driver per year pproximately 19,000 miles driveii. was found that increasing experience .sociated with a steadily diminishing lent rate, This was not only true in early years of driving but appeared Dntinue until drivers passed into the p with 14 or more years of service. se conclusions reached were that the lent rate fell to a marked extent as increased as far as the forties, and for older men the variation with is much less.
tpers on safety belts and the prob of measuring the effects of fatigue :lation to driving were also presented. Lough safety belts were considered to !. considerable benefits for the occu.s of private cars and light vans, their vision for bus drivers did not seem liable. Dr. L. G. Norman, Chief heal Officer of the London Transport eutive. who is the President of the .H.S., stated during the course of ussion that it was not planned to fit n to London buses.
SEVEN-YEAR TESTS
NDER the Motor Vehicles (Tests) Extension Order, 1961, compulsory .ng will be extended after December o all vehicles weighing not more than ;wt. unladen, and which are seven or -e years old.