BRING ON THE BANS!
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! 0-Licence cations leap by 25%! If you want to things look really good—or bad—ther centages are a great help. Unfortunate1. seldom tell the whole story. For example? the Traffic Commissioners' latest annual report that the number of 0-licences revoked has increa! more than 25%. But don't break open the BoIly ju The actual number of revocations recorded be 1995/96 was just 918; or 0.78% of all the 0-lic in circulation. Still, at least the TCs kicked out 91 apples. Well, not quite. The DOT itself admits tha proportion of these were administrative revoc, because businesses had ceased to trade". So a TCs still letting too many people off the f Commercial Motor remains convinced that morE uine "disciplinary" revocations are justifiable needed, to focus the mind of the waverers. doesn't help the cause when agencies like Custorr Excise don't bother to tell the TCs when they've c an operator using red diesel. The sooner the nc database of hauliers' misdemeanours is up an( ning, and available to the TCs, the better. Having lambasted the Commissioners in th, for not being tough enough we at least dE significant change in attitude. Gone al waffly words of yesteryear: they're spelling out they want from operators—and what they'll do don't get it. Witness Midland IC John Mervyn Pugh's comment: "I would like to remind the industry that licences are granted on the basis of truth and trust; false statements of intent will result in immediate revocation. This must be so in order to protect the good name of the industry." We'd take it one step further. Any haulier who can't, or won't, toe the line on maintenance, drivers' hours, loading or any other aspect of road transport law should be slung out—and kept out.