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RECOMMENDATIONS from the Foster Committee on Operator's Licensing are likely to be published in the next fortnight — but industrial troubles could mean that it is "some time" before the contents are known.
Freight directorate UnderSecretary at the Department of Transport Joe Peeler told the conference that the committee had received detailed evidence from all sectors of the industry for the report.
And he added that the com mittee would be consic among other things, whe go back to the pre-1968 carrier's licensing when i its recommendations to port Minister William Roc Mr Peeler said that contents of the report al controversial, then it co only a matter of months its recommendations are but if there is an outcry fr industry, then it might b: before the industry fes effects of the committee': He said that one of th important areas that th. mittee had before it was cement. It had been loo the problems posed by tors who never bothered out an operator's Iii among other areas.
He agreed that in the I system, some of the rulE difficult for operators to when they looked aroui saw other hauliers flout: regulations as they stood sent, and making mar pricing to take account flouting of the regulation Answering a questio Jo Loda Transport Equ managing director G Johnstone, Mr Peeler s: the proposals that Fast
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'1 would be surprised if the gestions that the committee to make are not constructive I aim to make the system nirg at present better — if eed that is possible," he
VIIPeeler also added that ore any changes were made he system, it would need to ve that the 0-licence system ning today was basically un ''We must have a system that ,ensitive to changes and one ose cost to the taxpayer is soiable, but the extent to ich we should consider the tection of the environment is yet clear,he said.