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Ballast hauliers want objection rights
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• All specialized trade organizations should be given the right to object to operators' licensing applications, the Sand and Ballast Hauliers and Allied Trades Alliance asserted in a statement issued last week. The secretary of the Alliance, Mr. Tom Thirkell, told CM that he thought it was scandalous that statutory objectors were to be confined to the RHA, FTA, four trade unions, police and local authorities. This left the industry wide open to union pressure and could lead to wholesale labour disputes.
The Alliance obviously wishes to have its name added to the list of statutory objectors. It feels that specialized sections of' road transport should have this right of objection to applications of concern to their particular field.
Accompanying this protest over objections, the Alliance statement called for greater enforcement activity in controlling unlicensed running and the unscrupulous operators "who are completely undermining the industry". It alleges that nothing effective is being done to eliminate unlicensed operators and alleges that in a recent example in Surrey unlicensed haulage continued for four weeks despite all the efforts of the MoT enforcement staff.
Says the statement: "A glaring example of just how bad unlicensed operation is, and the limitations on enforcement, is shown by the increase in shop-window companies taking on contracts and merely acting as clearing-houses for lorries with, or without, carriers' licences. Three years ago such activities were virtually contained within the London area; today one can go to any provincial city and find unlicensed operation in being."