Tighter TIR; Inviting IRU
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A T a Section 11 meeting of the Inter national Road -Transport Union in Geneva this week Mr. D. 0. Good, R.H.A. national chairman, formally invited this haulage section of the IRU to hold a meeting in London on September 24 next year. Mr. Good, who was accompanied by Mr. H. Bell, Mr. J. A. Murly and Mr. G. K. Newman, said the R.H.A. wished to be host at a reception and luncheon on that day and had made preliminary arrangements for a conducted tour of The Commercial Motor Show on September 25. A visit to Tilbury to inspect a roll-on/roll-off ferry service had been arranged for September 23, the Atlantic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. having asked that delegates should be its guests at a luncheon.
Section III of the IRU also met in Geneva this week, the T.R.T.A. being represented by Mr. K C. Turner and Mr. H. R. Featherstone; Mr. Turner also attended the presidential meeting.
The main item on the agenda for the meeting of all sections in council on Wednesday WaS the proposal for stricter control over the issue of TIR carnets, This arose out of reported cases of fraudulent misuse of carnets, involving a large sum of money in one case, and when the subject was discussed earlier this year the T.R.T.A. was one of the delegations which firmly resisted suggestions that, for example, a guarantee of 20,000 Swiss francs (about i1,700) should be put down by each applicant.
In September. the issuing countries met in Geneva and finally drew up a suggested control scheme, now approved by the T.R.T.A., under which national camelissuing authorities would establish an aanually vetted register of financially sound TIR users, while new applicants would have to complete a detailed and searching questionnaire, and drivers would be given a code of instructions on their role in the TIR scheme.