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Foreign reflectors derisory
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• In many cases reflectors carried by foreign lorries, in accordance with their own national regulations, were derisory in size compared with the excellent and conspicuous plates fitted to British lorries, complained Mr Peter Trew (Tory, Dartford) in the Commons.
He suggested that the Government should require the carrying of reflector plates by foreign lorries — if it was unacceptable for people to crash into the backs of British lorries it must be equally unacceptable for them to crash into the backs of foreign lorries, declared Mr Trew.
Mr John Peyton told him that it would be unreasonable to impose national marking requirements on foreign vehicles temporarily inported into the country.
We were bound by two international conventions setting out rules which allowed foreign vehicles to cross international borders so long as they fitted in with minimum requirements.
We tried to set high standards, added Mr Peyton, and it was his intention to influence others to follow in due course. In the meantime if a vehicle was positively dangerous it was open to the police to take action.
Mr Leslie Huckfield (Labour, Nuneaton) noted that some home-based vehicles were continually being stopped in countries like Italy because they did not conform with local regulations. When Italian, French and German lorries came to this country, was it not time that we stopped some of them as well?
Mr Peyton replied that he would look at any details given to him by Mr Huckfield. We stopped many foreign vehicles because of overloading, weight and dimensions, he pointed out.