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25th July 1996, Page 7
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Add up all the recommendations in thi Party Transport Select Committee r on road transport enforcement and have you got? The subject of just c every Commercial Motor editorial fc past five years (give or take one or two). It's a I impressive shopping list. But what's particularly gr ing is that all the committee's proposals make s Increasing the financial threshold to newcor pbughing back all the money from 0-licence. enforcement; impounding unlicenced trucks— could argue with that? No doubt the DepartmE Transport will, but the DOT always was a mir unconvinced. It's not just the old chestnuts that been roasted in the report. There are some imagir solutions to what have long appeared to be intrac problems. Like not having enough policemen to vehicles on roadside checks. The solution? Make 1 bers of the Vehicle Inspectorate Special Const, and let them stop the trucks themselves. Better • them self-defence though. Along with the IRTE, bound to support the recommendation that only fled mechanics work on HGVs. You wouldn't I, odd-job man maintain Concorde; why let him s( a modern-day HGV? Laden testing for provIsionc vers? We've been campaigning for it for years. A that lot the call for an ending of the margin allowance on 0licences, fixed penalties for overloading and improved links between magistrates and TA0s, and the committee has comprehensively answered the question as to how road transport enforcement can be improved. Meanwhile, back in Marsham Street, it's a fair bet that someone will be thinking: Yes, but haven't I seen all this before? Only in the pages of Commercial Motor Minister, only in the pages of CM...

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