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MARTIN BARNES Project manager Logistical Support Services Bristol "We're legislated
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up to the hilt already in this industry," says Barnes. "What we need is better enforcement of existing laws." He cites magistrates who fail to make full use of their powers when imposing sentences for dangerous driving. When it comes to scrapping legislation, he shares the view that the Working Time Directive is here to stay but that it's not being policed: "It's the biggest nonsensical piece of legislation we've ever had to deal with because it doesn't do what it set out to do, which was improve drivers' lives.
'A lot of cornpanies spent a good two years preparing for it and some even restructured their entire shift systems to accommodate it. Yet never mind driving a coach and horses through the legislation. You could drive a 40ft trailer-and turn it round. Such are the gaping holes in it."