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VVTD: 10% of operators are ready to go
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ONLY ONE OPERATOR in ten will be fully compliant with the Working Time Directive when it comes into force on 4 April despite the two week delay in its launch.
A survey of 250 companies by the Freight Transport Association and property consultancy NA! Fuller Peiser found delays have led many firms to wait before finalising their WTD agreements.
However, most operators have made some plans for the WTD, with 77% seeking to employ more drivers and 84% trying to recruit additional non-driving s aft But drivers may be disheartened to learn that without periods of availability being used to mitigate the WTD's effects they would have been in line for bigger pay packets, Respondents said without this concession they would have been forced to give above average wage increases to revamp their delivery schedules.
ETA policy director James Hookham says: "Given that the regulations were only published last week, it is not at all surprising that only one in ten companies consider themselves currently compliant."