R.T.C.s are Revoking Defence Permits A NUMBER of defence permits is
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being revoked by the Road Transport Commissioners, but, in some cases, where the need for the vehicles under them is apparent, short-term
permits are being given.• , One letter from an R.T.C. to an 'Operator, sent last month, points out that, whilst the ordinary procedure involved in an original application for a licence was suspended at the outbreak of war, and where an applicant Satisfied a Commissioner, that the' use of a vehicle was necessary under war conditions, a defence permit has been granted, in the majority of cases, valid for 12 months, and was automatically extended in currency without further application.
All cases in which tonnage now authorized under these permits is appreciably greater than that authorized at the outbreak of war are being reviewed,
Under 'paragraph IS of the Emergency poers (Defence) Road Vehicle a-rid Drivers Order, 1943, the R.T.C:lias power to revoke defence . permits, and he proposed to exercise that power in respect of certain vehicles of the operator concerned, due regard being had to the change in the war situation and \ to the traffic position in the district. In this case, aeshort-term permit is to be issued in respe.ct of one or two vehicles on hire to the R.H.O. Recommendations are also given as to which vehicles having an aggregate unladen weight equivalent to that operated pre-war should he retained -.'on full-term permits.
It is pointed out in the letter that the revocation pf the remaining defence
permits involves certain vehicles, also•that observations on the suggestions
can be submitted, but in framing any alternative the calculations must be based on the pre,war authorization for the smaller tonnage, which, incidentally, was considerably under half the total now being operated. • • All this, of course, • ineans . that vehicles valued at marry thouSands of pounds will have to be laid up or sold.