New Traffic Commissioners' Statutory measures

• Consideration of extended periods of grace for Standard Licence holders and more relaxed measures where:

  • Financial Standing requirements may not be met

  • A transport manager is unable to attend work

  • Other mandatory requirements to hold an operator’s licence can not be met

  • Operators are unable to access their operating centres 

  • (For any of the of above, communication must, in the first instance, be made with the Office of the Traffic Commissioner by the Operator or its legal representative)

• traffic commissioners' approach to the use of more historic financial evidence of an operator when applying for interim authorisation

• the traffic commissioners' approach to applications for temporary exemptions to the requirement to hold an operator’s licence in emergency situations

• attendance and postponement of hearings and consideration of evidence remotely

The full Statutory Document can be found here.