Hours regulations rusticate Oxford
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THE EEC is not, I suspect, the favourite institution of John Wells, national secretary of the Commercial Motor Lorry Driver of the Year Competition. Its requirement that time spent by 'paid drivers of the competition and in travelling to and from it should be included in the statutory limit on weekly hours worked, coming on top of thP trade depression, has hammered the final nail in so regional contests' coffins.
Oxford, one of the oldest loc centres, has had to pull out of the competition this year because fewer than 50 drivers entered. The poor support has been ascribed in part to the drivers' hours regulation. II The Oxford Mail leapt to ' transport's defence: "Does np safe driving any longer count more than a split hair of a Common Market technicality?