Safety with sense Ialways read Commercial Motor with interest. I
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am, however, sick of reading that in the name of safety we must comply with complex regulations and risk prosecution when a large number of the regulations have nothing to do with safety For example, the drivers' hours regulations require drivers to take a 45-minute break following four-and-ahalf hours' driving. However, owing to the interpretation that the driving period starts afresh following a 45-minute break this can be extended.
Surely if we are to comply with regulations they must make sense.
It is wrong that drivers and companies can be prosecuted for minor infringements when the legislators can write what they want.
In the interests of safety someone with a knowledge of transport, and most of all common sense, should be rewriting the legislation along with the interpretation. A Robinson, Newcastle Upon Tyne.