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Facilitating Licensing Procedure
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SOME doubt still exists in the minds of goodsvehicle operators as to the procedure adopted by the Licensing Authorities, and in respect of the particular points to which the most careful attention should be given in order that the carriers' applications for licences or for amendments should prove successful.
In the main, the procedure in the different areas has been co-ordinated ; consequently, the following views of the Authority for the North-Western Traffic Area should prove of general interest and value. They deal mainly with the policy in respect of new vehicles to be acquired, either as replacements or as additions to existing fleets.
Replacing Obsolete and Unfit Vehicles.
To begin with, and purely for administrative reasons, the Authority may issue short-term licences to cover periods between October 1, 1934, and the dates when it is in a position to issue substantive Class A or B licences, so that for some little time a measure of uncertainty must exist in respect of applications relating to vehicles regarding the authorization of which the Authority is required to exercise his discretion. Rights are given to various other interests to oppose such applications, and the Authority is bound to consider such objections before reaching decisions ; but it is desired that there should be as little interruption as possible in the very necessary process of replacing unfit and obsolete vehicles by machines of new design, and everything possible is being done to expedite the consideration of applications where the purchase of new vehicles is envisaged.
Many carriers are under a misapprehension as regards their right to replace existing vehicles by new models. Some continue to believe that the machines regarding which they have exercised the right to claimed tonnage must be those which were actually in their possession during the year ended March 31, 1933; whereas, provided the tonnage owned during the year be not exceeded, they have a complete right to replace all or any portion of it.
Similarly, they are at liberty to amend their applications up to the time of publication of the decisions of the Authority in Part III of "Applications and Decisions," without going through the procedure required for a variation.
Where a licence has been issued and a carrier seeks to replace a specified vehicle by one of slightly greater unladen weight, the variation procedure must operate, and the matter is one in which the Authority has full discretion, but such an application is not notifiable and, in other than exceptional circumstances, no opportunity will be given for objection. Generally, an application for replacement by a slightly heavier vehicle will be granted, provided that there are not circumstances which, in the opinion of the Authority, would merit close consideration.
Additions to An Existing Fleet.
Where it is desired to acquire a vehicle which will be an addition to an existing fleet, the Authority is bound to follow the procedure laid down in the Act, and he cannot undertake to deal with such an application in any shorter time than is required by such procedure, although every endeavour is being made to expedite cases of this kind.
It is not necessary at the time of an application for an additional vehicle to indicate any more than the fact that the carrier proposes to acquire another -vehicle, and the only information necessary is the proposed maximum unladen weight. A carrier would not be committed in any way by making an application of this type, even if the purchase of the new vehicle were not eventually made.