PSV DRIVERS may in future have to fill in drivers
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hours control books in much the same way as HGV drivers.
This was announced by Dr John Gilbert, the Minister of Transport in Parliament last week. He said that the Department was consulting interested organisations about a proposal that individual control books be introduced for drivers of certain classes of passenger vehicles so that the drivers hours regulations might be more effectively enforced.
A DoE spokesman later said that he could not disclose what were the "certain classes " that the minister had in mind.
A spokesman for the Confederation of British Road Passenger Transport said that it had received the DoE proposals but could not comment until these went before the appropriate committee.
Bee-line
CONTINENTAL coach tours run by both National Travel and Bee-line Roadways Ltd are to be merged next year and will be marketed under one name.
The new Bee-line-National will cover all the tours in the amalgamated programmes. Organisation will be done by Beeline with regional charting offices in London, the Midlands and the North.