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A COMMON SENSE and relaxed attitude — that is how Transport Minister William Rodgers advises this country to approach the subject of tachographs.
His advice was given in the Commons last week, when he repeated that he prefered not to see the tachograph in domestic use, and was not planning to move in that direction.
The Minister noted that this country had inherited certain obligations through membership of the EEC, and he supposed it could be said that we were committed to working towards a certain uniformity here.
There were conflicting views and problems to be reconciled — we had to accept our obligations as a member of the Community, but he had also to recognise our own problems at home.
"I think we shall have to feel our way along," said Mr Rodgers, He did not believe that the institution of the tachograph in domestic use would substantially add in any way to road safety or provide a method of regulation better than the methods that had grown up historically here.