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Malcolm Millard MGM Haulage Flexford, Southampton With 50 years in
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the business, Millard has seen more changes than most. He has already noticed that centralisation is underway after part-exchanging a truck and notifying the Western Traffic Area Office in Bristol.
"The 0-licence came back from Leeds." Millard reports. That's because Vosa is piloting a central PO box for licensing in Leeds.
Broadly speaking, Millard welcomes the streamlining plans. But he is worried about the details of how everything will work, especially when it comes to public inquiries over proposed 0-licence applications: "I'm just a bit worried that we'll end up with one Traffic Commissioner in, say, Birmingham and everybody will have to travel up and down the country to it if there's an inquiry. They will need to have deputies to do the inquiries locally.
"I'm also a bit worried that the local knowledge in existing Traffic Area Offices will start to die off." Malcolm Millard However. Vosa insists that there are no plans at the moment to shut any of the existing offices.