Removers Still Not Satisfied with Licensing Proposal
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OLLOWING the suggestion by removers holding B licences in the Metropolitan Area that the condition which it is proposed to attach to their licences under the 1953 Act should be re-worded (reported in the July 10 issue of The Commercial Motor), the Authority has now given further consideration to the matter and thinks there is merit in the general condition: "Household and office removals within . . miles."
He states that the carriage of scenery sale-room pieees, wedding gifts, etc. would be outside this condition ant would have to be covered by specia mention in appropriate cases, as ha been the practice in the past.
The method would be merely to sub stitute the proposed condition in curren licences for the words: 'Orinar furniture removals as defined a Section 125 of the Transport Adi 1947." He feels that the valuable wonl which has been done in his courts ii recent years in ascertaining what are th operations of individual B-licenc holders and what they should b authorized to do would then be pre served and "the satisfactory positioi which exists today would b maintained."
Allows No More
The Authority does not think that th new condition allows anything mor than the existing one. He states tha the procedure would be to publisl renewal applications, without modillca tion, in Part I of Applications an Decisions, and where there were n. objectors, to advise the applicant of th proposed new wording in order to giv him an opportunity for comment befor the renewal was granted.
Removers are still not satisfied. The believe that a condition which is, i effect, a continuance of the existing on would be out of keeping with one the purposes of the Transport Ac 1953, which is to give greater freedor to road transport. They maintain tha the conditions attached to their licence before the Transport Act, 1947, cam into force should be restored in full.
They are now seeking to arrange meeting with the Authority and Tenn sentafives of the Road Haulag Association.
[See article on page 43 of this issue.]