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L.A.'s Support Sought by T.R.T.A. in Maintenance Plans

15th January 1965
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

rLOSER liaison between goods vehicle operators and regional Licensing Authorities

could play an important part in improving standards of goods vehicle maintenance. This was the opinion of the Traders Road Transport Association's vehicles committee when it discussed maintenance at a meeting in London this week.

The committee was considering what could be done to enlighten as many operators as possible about improving their maintenance systems and impress upon them the urgent need to do so. The T.R.T.A. last year recommended to the Ministry of Transport that proof of maintenance should be made a qualification for a carrier's licence and that a nationwide regular maintenance inspection and advisory service should be set up. But supplementary to this, the vehicles committee thought that further corrective measures could be put over with the help of Licensing Authorities at open meetings. It reported that it had been impressed by the support already given in some places by Licensing Authorities and advocated that greater efforts be taken in the year ahead tobring similar meetings to all parts of the country.

The vehicles committee thought that the big disadvantage in the past had been that where maintenance meetings had been organized for operators, they had largely been preaching to the converted and it was recalled that the Northern division of the T.R.T.A. had proposed that Licensing Authorities should invite to the meetings all those operators whose vehicles were on record as being defective at spot checks. Whether or not this could be carried out to good effect was something that would have to be left to the discretion of the Licensing Authorities, but clearly the time had come for new thinking and it was no longer any good leaving the matter to educational literature alone. It was felt that a real drive in which both Licensing Authorities and operators' associations co-operated could have a much greater effect on the minds of the unconverted, and closer liaison between the T.R.T.A. and the Licensing Authority would ensure that the appropriate action be taken when necessary.


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