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No hurry on taicho decision
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TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers last week made it plain that — as far as he is concerned — there will be no speedy decision about bringing the tachographs into operation.
He gave the "plain assurance" that taking into account the views of all who would be directly affected would affect not only the programme for implementation but the timetable too.
There had to be consultations with both sides of industry and with the Commission, and it would begin quite soon.
Jo Grimond (Liberal, Orkney and Shetland) asked about the extra costs on transport and its users and was told that it was difficult to say. Yet the previous day, in reply to a written question, Mr Rodgers had said that it would add about 0.6 per cent to present operating costs — a very small increase which took no account of any off-setting productivity savings. Any effect on the cost of living was likely to be insignificant.
Douglas Jay (Labour, Battersea North) wanted to know why the Government had vetoed the application of the tachograph decision to Britain.
Mr Rodgers reminded him that it was open to Governments to veto new proposals. There was no question but that we had inherited a tachograph obligation when we joined the Community, and we had not sought to renegotiate.
• THE NATIONAL Freight Corporation is in favour of the tachograph.
This was made plain in the Lords last week, when Baroness Stedman, Under Secretary for the Environment, pointed out that in its evidence to the Foster Committee the NFC had said that, as a responsible employer, it would welcome the introduction of the tachograph as a contribution to effective enforcement of the operators' licensing system.
But Lady Stedman could not say how many had been installed or were operating, in state-run vehicles.