Simplify Transport Act call
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A SIMPLIFIED two clause Transport Act has been put forward by Hugh Featherstone, director general of the Freight Transport Association.
One clause would force the Government to invest in road and rail in response to consumer demand: the other would preserve and toughen the 0-licence system.
Mr Featherstone, speaking to the Chartered Institute of Transport in Lancaster„ said that the problem would then be to deal with the mass of detailed safety and environmental regulations. A cost effective approach should be used and only then would an objective answer appear.
The first step would be to get rid of bad law, for example compulsory tachographs. The sole justification of tachos was to enforce the hours rules, but this argument did not stand up because of the shortage of enforcement staff.
"It would be better to simplify the hours rules and so enable the existing enforcement effort to be spread