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EEC drivers' hours study could bring changes From our European correspondent
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CHANGES in the EEC regulations on driving hours could result from a study which the Commission has sponsored.
The Commission has engaged a German research institute, Bat tele, to study and precis literature on fatigue, hours of driving and safety among drivers. Their report will be centred on an American paper published about two years ago by the US Department of Transportation and prepared by Human Factors Research Inc, of Sarum Barbara, California.
When the Battele report is
presented in October this year, the Commission hopes to make its. own European study, to verify or refute existing legislation on driving and rest periods. A Commission spokesman told me that such a study would indicate whether Regulation 543/69 needed to be modified "in one direction or another."