Road/rail permits freed from quota
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AN UNLIMITED SUPPLY of Continental road/rail permits is now available for British international road hauliers : the road/rail system was freed from quota and permit restrictions on October 1.
The move is welcomed by the British Government as a step towards liberalising international road transport operations. The success of the move, however, has to be evaluated by the Community before the end of 1977.
Announcing the derestriction this week, the DoE said that because a minority of British hauliers had been operating on forged or illegally transferred permits, a measure of control had been devised.
Applicants for a road/rail permit, now classified as a certificate, must now give a written undertaking to the International Road Freight Office in Newcastle that they intend to use either the French or West German road/rail systems. They will then be issued with the certificate which will satisfy British enforcement staff that they are entitled to leave the country on an international journey.
The certificate will be acceptable at the French or German border permitting them to enter the country and it will then be stamped by th+ appropriate railway authoritie. as proof that the road/rai system has been used. Withou this stamp operators could fin< it impossible to leave Franc( or Germany to continue thei journeys.
Application forms for thl road/rail certificate are avail able at the IRAO, 36/42 Lov Friar Street, Newcastle upor Tyne.