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Those Regulations!

1st December 1933
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

T0 anyone who has followed closely the progress of the Road and Rail Traffic Act and the various amendments which have been made to it (for which latter, incidentally, the organizations representing the commercial vehicle industry are to be congratulated), the draft regulations, of which we published a summary in our issue for last week, are fairly clear, and this appears to be the consensus of opinion amongst those most qualified to judge. There are a few inconsistencies, and one or two of the draft forms are calculated to give many a haulier some sleepless nights, but these are dealt with elsewhere in this issue.

It must be taken for granted that there can be but little change in the final version, because the Act has been passed and no alteration can be made which might have the effect of modifying any of its clauses. In any case, the Ministry of Transport will have but little time in which to deal with such suggestions as are put forward by the trade organizationsvconcerned, because the comments upon the regulations have to be submitted by December 18, and the Minister hopes to issue the final regulations as a New Year gift to the industry.

In the meantime, we must emphasize to all operators of goods vehicles the great importance of making a close study of the requirements, and we shall be pleased to endeavour to elucidate for them any knotty problem with which they are confronted. In this connection we commence, in this issue, a series of articles dealing with hypothetical and actual questions to which we give the relevant answers, and we shall deal with those points which our postbag indicates to us as particularly exercising the minds of our readers.

Some questions can, of course, only be answered by the licensing authorities concerned. For example, with regard to what is termed "discretionary" tonnage, it is quite impossible to state definitely whether an applicant is likely or unlikely to be able to obtain a licence. In this connection, however, it is of vital importance that operators should pay great attention to die development of' an adequate system for the keeping of operating costs and records, whilst in relation to " contract " tonnage, i.e., tonnage applied for to satisfy contracts extendpig over continuous periods of not less than a year, the sooner such contracts are arranged the better, provided that they be not effected at cut rates.

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