URTU calls for drink charge
4th July 1991, Page 7
4th July 1991
Page 7
Page 7, 4th July 1991
— URTU calls for drink charge
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• Drivers' union URTU has launched a national campaign to change drink/driving law relating to HGV drivers.
The union has slammed "unfair interpretation of legislation" which allows police to wake up drivers in sleeper cabs and breathalyse them.
The campaign follows the URTU's success in a Scottish court where a charge against breathalysed driver Peter Haigh was dismissed (CM 30 May-5 June). URTU is distributing 50,000 leaflets outlining its campaign in truckstops, cafes and lorry drivers' workplaces. It is lobbying the Association of Chief Police Officers for amendments to the law.
URTU general secretary Frank Griffin says that if there were more truckstops, with bedrooms, drivers would not have to sleep in their cabs.
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Organisations:
Association of Chief Police officers, Scottish court
People:
Peter Haigh, Frank Griffin