ELECTRIC DELIVERY VEHICLE RECORDS MAY BE SCRAPPED
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'delivery vehicles—if they are satisfied that E Ministry of Transport will not hesitate
red tape".
This ray of hope was 'given in the Commons this week by Mr. Stephen Swingler. He noted that Mrs. Castle had already announced her intention to review the statutory maximum hours of work for drivers of goods vehicles and buses.
This review was now in hand and covered not only statutory limits on hours, but methods of enforcement, penalties for infringement and requirements about record-keeping.
It was recognized that the value of these forms for milk roundsmen was debatable and that they represented a tiresome obligation for the driver and employer. The Ministry was therefore actively engaged in consultations with both the unions and the employers' organizations.
Mr. Swingler's promise came after a demand from both sides of the House that these records should be abolished. Leading the call was Mr. Peter Mills (Tory, Torrington) who said that in 1965 there were 40,000 electric vehicles and the
to do away with record-keeping for electric this form-filling is "an unnecessary piece of
number was growing every year.
The danger of excessive driving hours could not apply to them and we could not afford to continue to waste time and money in keeping records. Over two million weekly log sheets were compiled each year, taking 30 minutes each a week to write, examine, record and file, said Mr. Mills.