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led-face Rodgers
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ANSPORT Minister Warn Rodgers is not ranted of the attitude taii is taking towards ho graphs — but sometimes finds it rather embarrasg.
Ie made this confession in Commons last week when vid Knox (Tory, Leek) ;gested that since the Min r was a strong supporter of EEC and a 'progressive Liti ian" he should be tari ed of the situation in ich he had placed himself .n. tkhographs.
ohn Evans (Labour, New1) maintained that though views of the European urt were important, in this & the views of the transport rkers' unions were even ,re important. He asked Mr. dgers to invite union der to give evidence to the urt VIr. Rodgers, who said he )ec ed the issue to be conered soon, did not think he Ald agree with Mr. Evans' Ldering of the balance in this pect. . rhe European Court had a iper responsibility and he s the last person to corn plain about that.
But he hoped that it would recognise that there were real problems, in some cases based on justified concern.
He hoped that the court would take that into account, along with the representations made by the TGWU and others.
Peter Temple-Morris (Tory, Leominster) asked what the Minister thought about tachographs — were they a good or a bad thing?
His view was that their advantage, from the safety point of view for example, had been greatly exaggerated, replied Mr. Rodgers. Had they not been invented, we should have no need to introduce them in this country.
We had long-standing practices — perhaps they could be improved, but they had served us well.
It was worth bearing in mind that our safety record was much better than that of most other European countries.
That was his personal view, but he accepted that the matter was a good deal more complicated than that.