LDoY protest procedure revised
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• Following the "protest or no protest" dispute after this year's Lorry Driver of the Year Final, the National Executive Committee of the Competition met on Tuesday. As a result of the meeting the regulations sub-committee has been instructed to ensure that there is provision for protests in the final run-off included in next year's regulations.
During the 17 years that the competition has been running there has been no such specific provision, though class contestants have been able to lodge protests. It was also agreed that following the run-off. the 10 finalists and their employers would have 15 minutes in which to lodge a protest after the provisional results had been published.
The committee has ruled that the tests to be used in the final run-off and the regulations will be printed in the programme. Previously these tests were kept secret until all of the finalists were known.