'Breathing space'; TRTA plea
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9 Chaos and confusion would result if the Minister of Transport tried to move too far too fast along all the lines foreshadowed in the Transport Bill, which last week finished its Parliamentary course, warned Mr. H. R. Featherstone, director of the Traders Road Transport Association, when speaking at the annual dinner of the Association's Hull Area on October 24.
A breathing space, he said, was absolutely vital to the transport industry, which in recent years had received one dose of legislation after another. There was a limit to the digestive capacity of even this dynamic industry which was now fully engaged in dealing with the problems of annual testing and plating.
Above all, a breathing space was necessary, "so that we can make sure that all of the hundred and one regulations which will be required to implement that Act are right, sensible and workable. This cannot be done in five minutes. It is essential to get these regulations right in order to repair the omissions and deficiencies which are bound to arise in a piece of legislation of this size, much of which is half-baked."