Driving Licence Endorsements
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— the R.H.A. just waits I NOTE in the R.H.A.'s monthly I journal " Roadway " that the South Derbyshire and Burton-on-Trent subarea meeting was "startled" to hear, during a discussion on driving-licence endorsements, that one member had already had two endorsements on his licence for contraventions of the Construction and Use Regulations.
No doubt this member, and many others in the Association, was concerned to hear that the Association had decided not to take the unsuccessful appeal test case of Mr. K. P. Venables to the High Court.
To my knowledge there have been a large number of personal driving-licence endorsements throughout the country, not
only of individual proprietors of haulage businesses, but of partnerships. It therefore came as no surprise to me to learn that the RI-IA. pursued the case of Venables---an individual carrying on haulage on his own account—in the first place against, I understand the advice of its legal advisers. Surely a case involving driving-licence endorsements of two partners would have been a better case to pursue?
• The Venables case having been taken to the Gloucestershire Appeals Committee—where, as fully reported in Licensing Casebook on November • 22, Mr. Richard Yorke argued the Association's case so ably but lost--R.H.A. members, and others; will probably share