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TRANSPORT managers' licensing will form an integral part of operators' licensing by 1978 and apply to own-account operation as well as hire and reward. These proposals are contained in the second consultative document on entry to the profession of road haulier circulated for comment by the Department of the Environment this week.
Representations by the Freight Transport Association to have own-account operators excluded when replying to the first consultative document sent out in August last year therefore seem to have been refuted.
The consultative document states that the transport managers' licensing provision contained in the Transport. Act 1968, hitherto not implemented, will be used as a basis for the scheme. There is also a similarity between the EEC provisions and the existing operators' licensing scheme.
The EEC Directive requires operators to be of good repute, financial standing and professionally competent. The 0licence scheme includes the first two, though evidence of financial standing is discretionary on the LA at present—it will become mandatory if the scheme is implemented.
The unimplemented provisions of the 1968 Act, which were designed to form an integral part of the 0-licence scheme, will be operated as such to provide evidence of the last requirement.
The document provides for the scheme to apply to all 0-licence operators of vehicles with a gross maximum weight of 3i tonnes (3.445 tons). Exemptions will be similar to those applicable to 0-licensing, The EEC Directive applies to vehicles of 6 tonnes but the DoE feels that the 0-licenceweight threshold is appropriate.
It has included own-account operators because the unified approach to operators' licensing typified by the British system would suffer from a reintroduction of the distinction between hire and reward and ownaccount. Moreover it would give rise to enforcement difficulties, says the DoE. A two-tier system with the first examination for all operators and further tests for hire and reward men could be considered.
Good repute and professional competence would become requirements for transport managers' licensing with the addition of adequate financial standing for an 0-licence. No 0-licence would be valid unless a person with a position of responsibility holds a transport manager's licence. This could be the 0-licence holder or a person nominated by him who fulfils the requirements.
Those in post before December 31, 1974 would be able to claim a transport manager's licence without sitting the test of professional competence and temporary authorities lasting six months would be available for people who would not claim "grandfather" rights to give them time to sit the examination.
There would be penalties for non compliance with the scheme broadly following those already laid down in the 1968 Act.
It is proposed that the Royal Society of Arts would be responsible for setting the examinations and that responsible bodies would be encouraged to run courses.