WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1988
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ARTICULATED VEHICLE DRIVING LICENCE COMPULSORY THIS AUGUST
(WEDNESDAY) THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT, MR JAMES SO, TODAY
THAT THE GRACE PERIOD ALLOWING REMINDED CONTAINER TRUCK DRIVERS
LICENCES ISSUED BEFORE DRIVING
WOULD VEHICLES
EXPIRE ON
HOLDERS
"ALL OF
GOODS VEHICLES"
AUGUST
25,
1984
ARTICULATED TO DRIVE AUGUST 24 THIS YEAR AS SCHEduled.
HARBOUR APRIL,
AT A MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FEDERATION OF TRANSPORTATION UNIONS, MR 80 POINTED OUT THAT AS AT THE END OF
VEHICLE DRIVING THERE WERE 9,227 DRIVERS HOLDING A VALID ARTICULATED LICENCE, WHILE THE NUMBER OF LICENSED CONTAINER TRACTORS WAS 4,647.
THE
FIGURES
CONTAINER TRACTOR.
REPRESENTED
A
RATIO
OF 1.98
DRIVERS
TO ONE
IN AUGUST,
OF
"IT IS EXPECTED THAT WHEN THE GRACE PERIOD EXPIRES THE RATIO ACHIEVED WILL BE SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN THE TARGETED RATIO
HE ADDED, TWO ARTICULATED VEHICLE DRIVERS TO ONE TRACTOR,
H
ONE TRACTOR,
THIS RATIO OF TWO ARTICULATED VEHICLE DRIVERS TO HE SAID, WAS CONSIDERED ADEQUATE TO MEET THE DEMAND OF THE INDUSTRY.
THE REPRESENTATIVES MR SO HAD A USEFUL EXCHANGE OF VIEWS WITH OVER A NUMBER OF TOPICS CONCERNING THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY.
OVERLOADING
VEHICLES,
THE
A CODE
GOODS OF ON THE PROBLEM OF COMMISSIONER SAID THAT THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT WOULD PUBLISH OF PRACTICE ON LOADING OF VEHICLES LATER THIS YEAR.
WOULD PROVIDE
REMIND
USEFUL GUIDES IT WAS HOPED THAT THIS CODE
OPERATORS NOT TO SAFE LOADING AND WOULD ALSO SERVE TO GOODS IN EXCESS OF THE PERMITTED GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHTS,
INTO
ACCOUNT
MR SO SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS WOULD CERTAINLY TAKE DRIVERS.
ON LOAD
THE
LOOKING INTO THE
DIFFICULTIES
PROBLEM BY FACED
AND
THE
FOR ADDITIONAL
HE, ALSO EXPLAINED TO THE REPRESENTATIVES PLANS TRANSPORT BERVICES TO COPE WITH POSSIBLE
EXTRA DEMAND ARISING FROM
HE AGREED ΤΟ AND THE
THE INTRODUCTION OF A PEAK-HOUR SURCHARGE BY THE MTRC. REFLECT THEIR VIEWS ON THE SURCHARGE TO THE TRANSPORT BRANCH MTRC BOARD.
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