Managers for hire?
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• Traffic Commissioners are to meet next month to discuss the Freight Transport Association's proposals to offer a transport manager service to its members.
The FTA saw an opportunity for the scheme when legislation changed last November and hauliers no longer had to employ a fulltime transport manager.
The scheme in which the FTA proposes to put forward individual staff as part-time transport managers is at the "embryo stage".
It will decide whether to take its plan forward, following the response from the LAs, which have the power to turn down transport managers if they are not satisfied they are of good repute or will effectively and continuously manage the fleet. 0 North Eastern Licensing Authority Fred Whalley has re
futed suggestions that his impending retirement has anything to do with the John Dee case A story in CII/fs sister paper Motor Transport said Whalley's retirement had been widely expected following his decision to grant Dee a licence, overturned by the Transport Tribunal last month. However, Whalley told CM that, although he could continue in the post until 70, he had told the Department of Transport and fellow Commissioners 12 months ago that he intended to retire.