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Britain asks EEC for 10-hour day
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TEN HOURS driving a day looks like staying the legal maximum in Britain until the end of 1977 at least.
For Dr John Gilbert, Minister for Transport, revealed this week that the Government has asked the EEC Commission for an 18 months' postponement to putting the Euro hours rules into operation.
This move, which was predicted in CM March 12, comes only two weeks before the current six months' deferment of the regulations runs out.
The Commission is expected to grant the further stay of execution, particularly since it still has before it proposals to significantly alter Regulation 543/69 under which the hours rules fall.
This would mean that there will be no change to the maximum hours and minimum rest periods of drivers of lorries, buses and coaches engaged in UK domestic traffic.
And under the altered regulations if the UK could prove that we were still in serious difficulties over implementing the hours rules at the end of 1977 a further delay could be requested.
A spokesman for the Freight Transport Association said this week that it is delighted with the deferment request.
" However, it is most unlikely that the outcome will be known before the end of June. In theory this leaves operators in the same state of uncertainty as last December.
"In practice it is of course impossible for Britain to comply by July 1 and we are confident that this will be recognised by the Commission."
The PTA is advising its members to take no action for the time being.