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Look after your own licence
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YOUR EDITORIAL headed "Relationship at breaking point" (CM 25 August) was interesting, to say the least; in some ways,! found it amusing.
The issue is really about some solicitors and consultants keeping control of what they see as a bread-and-butter market and feel they may be shut out.
Judging by recent reports in the press some consultants have been falling foul of the Traffic Commissioners and getting their presence banned from public inquiries.
My view is that operators are responsible for their licences, and while they may wish an agent to deal with the details of the licence and the Traffic Area Offices, the first contact should always be with the operator.
As an analogy, how many times do you see an operator called to appear before the Traffic Commissioner for maintenance problems because he had relied upon a third party contractor?
Should it not be the same for other outsourced areas of the business?
You state there are some good clerks at some Traffic Area Offices and some not so good; paperwork is slow and some gets lost.Well the same can be said for some solicitor's offices.
No operator should ever totally rely upon anyone else to protect his or her 0-licence, and I would suggest that everyone reads the Goods Vehicle (Licensing of Operators) Act 1985 and digests the details. I always smile when operators contact me to deal with their problems or public inquiries and then tell me they are members of either the FTA or RHA.
Ray Sal'tiel RS Consultants & Associates Llanelli