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Seven-year itch for the virtuous?
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• "Some of the most virtuous may have received short-period operators' licences, while less virtuous hauliers may have got seven-year licences", said the East Midland Licensing Authority, Mr C. M. Sheridan, on Wednesday. This was, however, he said, no reflection on an operator; the system would give a chance for more careful examination on renewal.
Mr Sheridan was speaking at the annual lunch of the RHA East Midland area, at Nottingham University. He thanked members and RHA staff—notably area secretary Bill Morton—for support and co-operation in the first phase of 0 licensing, when 3,500 applications were handled in three months. He praised his own area staff, commenting that it was not only on operators that the burden of legislation fell, and also the transport trade Press for its help in interpreting the complex new legislation—not solely for operators but also, on occasion, for the MoT.
The national chairman, Mr Noel Wynn, drew attention to the Minister's recent estimate that goods vehicle operating costs rose by 40 per cent between 1964 and 1969 (CM last week) and pointed out the independent report's estimate that the cost
of financing road haulage business rose by 4.8 per cent between 1966 and 1968. Mr Wynn advised hauliers to show these figures to their accountants and ask them to examine their own businesses from this point of view.
At the agm on the same day, Mr H. Bon salt was re-elected area chairman; Mr G. W. Pell, Mr M. J. Hemphrey and Mr R. Wilson are vice-chairman.