ROADSIDE CHECKS
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLMOVES to increase the amount of checks that have to be made on driver's tachographs and working time records are being resisted by the European Parliament's transport committee. The European Commission wants to increase these checks from covering at least one per cent to three per cent of days worked by drivers, however, MEPs have proposed amendments saying that two per cent is enough. Also, the Commission wants to reform EU working time rules to ensure that at least 30 per cent of hauliers' working days checked by national officials should be ...
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