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0-licensing system update: Dff listens to operators
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Plans to modernise the 0-licensing system are slowly making their way into law, but now with some significant changes. Sally Nash reports.
THE DEPARTMENT for Transport (DfT) has backed off from rolling all vehicle fees into a single test fee in its proposals for modernising operator licensing. This follows warnings that many operators would have paid 23% more than they do now.
Transport Minister Dr Stephen Ladyman has revealed the latest proposals. They include: • Appointing a single Traffic Commissioner to deal with the licence of an operator with sites in more than oneTraffic Area: • A pledge to abolish windscreen discs for licensed vehicles after the roll-out of new technology: • A simplified fee structure.
The DfT believes these moves will cut red tape and save the road haulage and passenger transport industries about i15m a year.
The revised fee structure is one of two key changes that have been made to the proposals in response to representations by the road haulage industry.
The INT has decided to change the proposed fee structure for goods vehicles so only 0-licence vehicle fees will be merged with roadworthiness test fees. The second change is that further evaluation work will be carried out on abolishing the one-month margin concession (which would require immediate notification of vehicles used under a licence) as it could impose a much higher burden on the industry than was originally thought.
The Freight Transport and Road Haulage Associations say the Drr the ETA in Scotland. says: "We had a bit of a to-do with them over the fee proposals as the situation was that operators with more than three or four vehicles would have ended up paying more than currently.
"But they have decided just to combine the quarterly vehicle fee into the annual test fee."
Steve Williams. public affairs manager at the RHA, says the association was concerned about the proposal to end the 28-day margin because it was unrealistic to expect that smaller hauliers would be able to get hold of Vosa on a 24/7 basis. In its consultation submission, the RHA said it would accept a margin concession of three working days but would prefer seven.