Drop rolling week FA urges Europe
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E EEC ROLLING week should be abandoned and replaced by the 'pier fixed week, a three-man Freight Transport Association daleion told the European Commission last Friday.
• he delegation, led by FTA • ector-general Hugh therstone, was pressing for nges to be made to Regula 543/69 on drivers' hours an it is reviewed in the cornmonths.
also wants the eight-hour ring day to be extended to e hours, with at the very least extension of the two-day e-hour derogation which apIs to lighter vehicles being exded to all vehicles.
"More fundamentally, if it is safe to have two nine hour days, it is safe to work nine hours every day," an ETA spokesman told CM, and added that a tighter weekly limit could ensure that excessive hours are not worked.
The ETA delegation, which came away from Brussels feeling confident about the progress it made, also pressed for greater exemption to be made from the driving hours limits for drivers engaged on short-time and short-distance work, and for the possibility of a blanket exemption to be created for delivery vehicles in a limited area.
They also want greater derogation powers to be granted to member states, in Britain's case to cover remoter areas like the Scottish islands in which 543/69
and the tachograph regulations are disregarded through the Government's "Nelson's eye" policy.
The ETA also pressed for EEC clarification of the rules affecting private driving, such as the CM Lorry Driver of the Year competition, to ensure that this is not included in a driver's weekly limit.