Meat Traders Call for Simplified Small Van Records
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A MIDLANDS resolution advocating a "once and for all" certificate for C-licensed vehicles of 25 cwt. unladen weight or less in lieu of the present vehicle log book was passed at the National Federation of Meat Traders Associations' conference at Torquay on Monday.
Mr. A. T. Moss (Birmingham), proposing the resolution, said that a once and for all certificate was the only sensible answer to the "completely useless compiling of daily vehicle log books by traders who are engaged in work of a repetitive nature."
The present system was quite farcical, he said.
This suggestion would also dispense with the "silent checks" now in operation —where a vehicle log book was sent for and checked against a vicinity the vehicle was seen to be in some time previous. If the log book did not tally with the place, a prosecution might follow.
[Proposals for such records were made to the Minister of Transport about a year ago. The Minister has since said he is "considering" the proposals. The Commercial Motor has repeatedly urged their adoption.--En.]