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for the Construction and Use (Amendment) Regulations, details of which appear on pages 42-44 of this issue. The amendments, which provide for larger and heavier vehicles, were laid before the House on Thursday of last week and take effect on August 21, 1964. They will, however, remain vulnerable to a negative prayer motion from any Member for the first 38 sitting days of Parliament after the summer recess, though any such formal opposition is considered unlikely.
The Road Haulage Association said that it liked the regulations, which were a step in the right direction—even if it did not agree with everything in the regulations. The R.H.A. was particularly pleased that the regulations took the first step towards plating of vehicles with maximum gross weights, and the first step towards the establishment of reasonable standards for brakes. The Association hoped that manufacturers would co-operate by providing higher braking standards than those demanded, to
allow for increased wear in use.
The news that, after all the uneertain ties and difficulties, regulations had now been laid before Parliament was welcomed by the Traders Road Transport Association. It was a little disappointed that the Ministry had not been able to provide for the deterioration factor by braking efficiencies of vehicles in use by allowing for tolerances in braking requirements and, as stated earlier, the T.R.T.A. will be giving this aspect further consideration to determine what it can do to assist smaller operators.
Whilst the Association was pleased to sec that requirements regarding projecting containers had been clarified and the problems which arose when regulations were proposed earlier this year had now been cleared, it was disappointing to see that, by the framing of regulations, only those vehicles first registered after February 1, 1963, and 'complying with braking and plating regulations, would be allowed to take advantage of the increased axle weights permitted in certain circumstances.