Fatigue blamed for more accidents
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DRIVER fatigue rather than mechanical failure was almost certainly to blame for recent hgv accidents — and such accidents could be avoided if tachographs were fitted and used to monitor a driver's performance.
So said Ron Perrin, vicechairman of the London Centre of the National Guild of Transport Managers at the Centre's annual dinner last weekend, in a speech which criticised ministerial proposals to test hazardous load carriers every six months.
He took the opportunity to include in his speech "pressing matters of moment" for the benefit of Tory transport spokesman Norman Fowler, MP, who was to have been the Society's guest of honour. Unfortunately Mr Fowler was unaccountably absent — delayed, it was said, in Paris.
Mr Perrin added that the burning issue was whether hours and tacho regulations would be acceptable to unions, and it was here that he had been hoping for a response from Mr Fowler.
He believed that the lack of an official decree in the matter was causing confusion to managements, retarding planning and wasting managerial time.