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ANSPORT Bill has Me law — with just minute change made isions.
mmons threw out an nt from the House of ch said that the fee ing a vehicle should ed that for annual and substituted its ys that the Minister re that the charges onably comparable fees charged in reshe periodic examina oods vehicles . a which made Lord Chilworth, who had he original amenderfectly happy, exMr Peter Fry (Tory, °rough).
echoed by Lord self when the Upper as told that the Comd not agreed with the Lords' amenda situation they almost without de about the five-mile diversion for testing, said he was not impressed with stories of roadside examiners working in wet, cold or icy conditions.
Many men and women had to work in such conditions, and he would have thought that anybody worth his salt would be able to do the job.
He completely refuted the suggestion that there were some tests which could be carried out only in a testing station, which was just a large covered tunnel with open ends through which the wind blew, cold and icy, arid in which people were sheltered from the rain.
For the Government, Lady Stedman repeated that in view of the significance for drivers' hours of the times spent on the diversions, examiners were already treating, and would continue to be asked to treat sympathetically requests for endorsement in log books to show the time of diversion, the time when it ended and the inspection had been completed.