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Associations fight plans to end the LA system
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• Local traffic areas must be retained following the Department of Transport's shake-up of licensing authorities, say both the Freight Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association.
"As most operators only have a few vehicles based in a single place it makes sense to continue to run traffic areas on a local basis as opposed to a central bureaucracy," says the FTA. The trade associations insist service levels must be improved and licensing authorities should concentrate only on their judicial function, leaving clerks in charge of traffic area administration.
More consistency in decisions in different traffic areas is also needed, says the FTA. It says: "All too often, operators who have several depots falling in different traffic areas find there is no consistency between areas — even in the number of forms they are asked to fill in."