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rRAIGHTFORWARD issue faces operators between now and January 1 t tachographs or confine your activities to 450km (281 miles) a day. re can be no doubt that this part of EEC law will be implemented and itually enforced.
he surprise element in the issue is that operators are shocked at the fs which came last week. Intimation of the intent to apply this slation was made earlier this year in CM.
t is disturbing to learn that very few operators have either adjusted their edules to take account of the 281 miles limit or to fit tachographs. tally disturbing is the fact that in order to avoid a union confrontation, iy companies — some of them very large, have not only ceased to use lographs but have had-them removed from their vehicles. rhese are disturbing facts. The news that the Department of Transport after four months work only "licensed" 30 tachograph calibration :ions with another 300 waiting Dection is alarming. The failure of the position to raise the whole issue in its )ate on transport-on Monday is :zling.
As Europeans, we are slouching along Ne must get into step and somebody ,st give a lead.