Lawyer pans part-time managers
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• One of Britain's leading transport lawyers said this week he believes it is legally fatal for hauliers to appoint part-time transport managers, though he recognised that many operators do exactly that.
Stephen Kirkbright, chairman of the Association of Road Transport Lawyers, was responding to the Traffic Commissioners' controversial consultative document on the role of transport managers.
Kirkbright says in his written submission to the TCs that he had always advised hauliers against anything but a full-time transport manager whose responsibilities are cleat defined and understood.
He adds: "if you are an ownerdriver you either need a CPC yourself or or you need to have someone with one who is in control and can over-rule you. I recognise that my opinion on the correct interpretation of the law in no way reflects the situation existing in most transport companies."