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• When 250 operators and engineers from the Industrial Transport Association, the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association attended a joint meeting in Edinburgh on Monday they were told that of the 2,700 operators' licence application forms issued in the Scottish traffic area only 1,500 had been returned by January 26.
The speakers at the meeting were both senior officers from the Ministry of Transport Scottish traffic area. Mr. W. N. McCoubrey, the senior mechanical engineer, said that in the past 12 months, maintenance standards in the area had vastly improved and he emphasized the importance of maintenance facilities. Mr. McCoubrey told his •audience that when applying for an operator's licence, applicants were stating, in some cases, that their vehicles were inspected at six-monthly or 12-monthly intervals: there were others, who admitted to examining vehicles only when they broke down.
Mr. J. Manson, head of the goods licensing section, MoT, warned operators that any application for additional vehicles in excess of 10 per cent would be closely investigated before any grant was made.