Jelson's eye on tachos
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:OTTISH island operators are ing advised not to install :hographs pending a meeting Stornoway next week.
rhe Highlands and Islands Deopment Board's Donald Macish has been lobbying for ars for exemption from EEC ective 1463/70 to operators in note areas. Now he learns it Junior Transport Minister nneth Clarke has written to criey and Shetland MP Jo Grind. While it says, the law deInds that a Westray island _flier should install a calk ited tachograph, a postscript J5 that the operator should :fit one. The operator has one the two lorries on the island, I would have needed to send ria a lift-on/lift-off ship to a ibration centre in Kirkwall.
-1 the light of this apparent elson's Eye" approach to hographs from Mr Clarke, Mr cCuish is advising other isd operators not to fit tachophs.
le is also pressing Scotland's d Advocate, Lord Mackay, for undertaking that island Kators will not be prosecuted .hey have not fitted tachophs by the end of this year.