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NEW about-face by ansport Minister William dgers on tachographs now pans acceptance by the Dertment of Transport that the trument is an aid to road 'ety.
In a letter to Royal Society • the Prevention of Accirits director of road safety, ke Read, Mr Rodgers says agrees that tachos could be !ful in ensuring levels of id safety.
3ut in January, Mr Rodgers d MPs: "I do not believe that ! institution of the tachoiph in domestic use would 3stantially add, in any way, road safety."
Vow, Mr Read is to write lin to the Minister asking if he is prepared to urge erators to fit and use tachos.
n his letter to RoSPA, Mr dgers makes it plain that he rejected the introduction legislation as a means to get hos used in domestic vehis.
'Even this reply is better in we expected. It's quite !ouraging," Mr Read told I.
-Bs appeal to the Minister ne after a meeting of the SPA National Road Safety mmittee which has mbers from the DTp and ! haulage industry. The eting came to the conclu n that tachos would help id safety.
knd the committee also ved to press for the comsory introduction of the trument despite the admis n that it was aware of ustrial relations problems 1 financial factors in the roduction of tachographs.