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Consultant to challenge Senior TC over advisers
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SENIOR TRANSPORT Commissioner Philip Brown confirmed this week that he has received a solicitor's letter challenging a new rule on how Traffic Area Offices deal with correspondence.
This follows Brown's "practice direction" issued in October 2004 that told TAOs to send correspondence, including 0-licence information, direct to hauliers rather than to their advisers.
Brown was responding to concerns about some third-party con sultants being sent documents which failing to reach inquiries.
But some advisers have argued that the policy has backfired because hauliers often do not understand what they receive and the TAOs are said to have been inconsistent about sending copies to their advisers.
It is understood that the letter received by Brown objecting to the direction was sent by Robert Locke, a solicitor acting on behalf of Ward International Consulting (CM 25 August).
A spokesman confirms that Brown has received the letter, but adds that the Senior Traffic Commissioner will not be commenting on the matter.
"The department has received a legal notice and this has been passed on to the department's lawyers." he adds. "until the matter has been dealt with Mr Brown will not be commenting because he feels it is inappropriate."