Licence Fees, Cafes and Warning Signs
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ACALL for higher excise licence fees on heavy lorries was turned down in the Commons this week. Mr. Alan Green, Financial Secretary to the Treasury. told Mr. Simon Wingfield Digby (Tory, Dorset W.), who made the suggestion, that the present tax on heavy lorries was substantially greater than that on cars and he did not think that any special review of the situation was needed.
Separate cafes catering primarily for commercial drivers will be provided at all service areas on motorways, promised Mr. Marples. The Minister said these facilities were now provided at all but two of the service areas, and in those without separate facilities there was catering for commercial drivers in the ordinary cafeterias.
Mr. Marples is proposing to make regulations which will authorize the use of emergency warning signs by drivers, and lay down the conditions under which this can be done. But he has no • powers under the 1962 Road Traffic Act to make the carrying of such signs compulsory.