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great anti-tachograph strikes came to nothing this week, future battles look certain to be fought only on what cash ement can be agreed.
ransport and General rkers Union national retary Jack Ashwell told ers not to go ahead with first of the one-clay strikes wlich was scheduled for last MOnday.
Future strategy depends on the outcome of a special delegate conference which was due to be held during the week, but it is clear that drivers do not support the st ke call.
reported in CM last week, on y the 5/35 Birmingham Ci branch planned to take se dri th part in the dispute, as others saw more chance of a cash bonus being wrung out of employers in exchange for acceptance of tachographs.
A major sign of this new mood came at Peterborough where representatives of 1500 drivers voted to accept tachographs and to press instead for a cash bonus, probably of £5 per day.
The Road Haulage Association will almost certainly resist such claims as it sees no sense in paying drivers simply to observe the law. RHA secretary Eric Russell told CM this week that employers were prepared to make bonus payments after tachographs are installed, provided that definite savings show up.
But he added that he was delighted with the TGWU decision to call off the strikes, which he described as "futile".
It was a victory for the drivers over the union committee which recommended the strike, and he was glad to see that the will of the majority had triumphed.
In the meantime, Transport Minister Norman Fowler has tried to ease drivers' fears about retrospective prosecutions for speeding being based solely on tachograph evidence.
"Implementation of the EEC tachograph regulation will not have the effect of making tachograph records acceptable as sole evidence of prosecutions for speeding."
He said that while speed was recorded on the tacho disc, it did not show precisely where the vehicle was at that time. Courts would need evidence of this and of the tachograph's accuracy.
"Drivers' fears of convictions for speeding solely on the basis of tachograph records are therefore groundless."