Call for amnesty
21st March 1996, Page 8
21st March 1996
Page 8
Page 8, 21st March 1996
— Call for amnesty
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United Road Transport Union, Politics
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• The Government is being urged to give an amnesty to hauliers and drivers who break licensing, hours and maintenance regulations, as a prelude to much tougher enforcement action on all three.
The United Road Transport Union believes an amnesty for dole scroungers proposed by social security minister Peter Utley has opened the door to a similar deal for hauliers. It wants the amnesty to last for three months.
URTU also wants cross-party backing and the support of Vehicle Inspectorate chief executive Ron Oliver for the amnesty because it would affect the VI's workload and have to be followed by tougher enforcement action on hauliers. "The idea is to stop it," says an