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A plea for the compulso use of the tachograph to 1 delayed in Scotland because that country's poor roads m with no official sympathy the Commons last week.
Mr Albert McQuarry (NI for Aberdeenshire East) ask( the Transport Minister to en ure that the tachograr regulations were not ma( compulsory until full agre ment had been reached wi Scottish vehicle operators. H reasons were that the regul tions would cause particuL problems for them due to tt conditions and width restri tions on Scottish roads, whi( precluded normal speeds, an to the lack of adequate du carriageways or motorways.
But Mr Norman Fowler to him that the tachograph wo simply a mechanical device I replace the drivers' log boc which was required undo present regulations.
Its introduction would no affect other rules regulatir the operation of goo( vehicles, in particular thof regulating drivers' hours.
The Minister promised du he would take full account all comments on the dra regulations before putting t Parliament his proposals fc phasing in the tachograph.