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Protecting managers' interests
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• The national committee of the Transport Managers' Club is holding a special meeting to discuss the possibility of extending its scope to provide professional representation for transport managers, in the light of the proposed introduction of transport managers' licences. This was revealed last week by the national chairman, Mr. C. Starr, at a well-attended monthly meeting of the Northampton area of the TMC.
Mr. Starr said there was a widespread feeling in the club that some such means of looking after the interests of members, in their future role as licensed managers, was becoming necessary. Hitherto the TMC, which has area organizations throughout the country, has been principally a social body.
At last week's Northampton area meeting a team from Commercial Motor—the editor, deputy editor and technical editor— answered questions from members in a transport quiz. The questions revealed that the problems of ensuring that vehicles were not overloaded, and of establishing satisfactory arrangements for meeting transport managers' licensing requirements, were matters of special concern.
Some questions reflected a strong feeling that, despite Ministry assurances that the intention was to prosecute only major offenders, trivial infringements by responsible operators were being harshly dealt with. In one case quoted, a conscientious haulier had been fined £20 on an overloading charge —£10 for a 9cwt excess in gross weight on a heavy goods vehicle and £10 for a 4cwt excess on one of its axles.