New Concessions for Export Vehicles
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FURTHER concessions to manufacturers of vehicles for export are proposed by the Ministry of Transport. Makers are already exempt from nearly all the constructional requirements of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, 1955, in respect of vehicles proceeding to ports. The exemptions do not, however, cover cases where a. chassis is driven from one works to another for the body to be added, or where a final road test has to be conducted before proceeding to a port.
The Minister proposes to extend the existing dispensations to use in connection with the construction, testing, delivery and repair, and to movement to a demonstration area, of a vehicle built for export, or the prototype of such a vehicle. It would be allowed to carry only test apparatus and ballast and persons required for the test.
Where it exceeded 9 ft. 6 in. in width, or was longer than allowed under the Construction and Use Regulations, notice would have to be given to the police of the route to be used for each type of vehicle.
If necessary, the Minister is willing to combine with these concessions an authorization to permit the use on roads of overweight vehicles for export, whether on test or proceeding to a port. Notice would, however, have to be given to highway and bridge authorities, as in the case of vehicles constructed to carry. abnormal indivisible loads.
R.H.A. TO RECOMMEND LEGAL CHANGES?
CHANGES in the law may be recommended by the national licensing committee of the Road Haulage Association at their special meeting next Tuesday. They are to consider the continuation of special A licences as ordinary A licences, the effect of Section 9 (4) of the Transport Act, 1953, and the question of normal user.
The Ministry of Transport has already agreed that A licences granted in continuation of special A licences should carry normal-user terms similar to the work done over a reasonable period—perhaps a year—before renewal becomes due.
Hauliers are concerned about the interpretations which are being placed on Section 9 (4) and on normal user.
COVENTRY NO LONGER HALFWAY HALT
WTH the construction of the LondonYorkshire motorway, fewer longdistance goods-vehicle drivers will use Coventry as a halfway stopping point, Mr. A. Ling, Coventry City Architect, considers. Acting on his advice, the markets committee have abandoned plans' for providing permanent parking facilities on Coventry by-pass.
The lorry park in Holyhead Road, which loses money, is to be closed. Before denationalization it was greatly used by British Road Services, who are soon to have their own park.