A draft EU directive aimed at enforcing financial penalties against drivers who commit an offence in an EU member state other than the one where the vehicle is registered has been adopted by the European Commission (EC). The proposed directive will cover four types of road traffic offence: speeding drink-driving not wearing a seat belt and failing to stop at a red light. It will involve the creation of a European electronic data exchange network to identify the holder of a vehicle.
The FTA is calling for the directive's scope to be expanded to cover two other offences. Deputy chief executive and policy director James Hookham tells MT: "We'd like to see road-worthiness and drivers' hours included in the directive as these are the offences VOSA has problems enforcing on foreign trucks. We will be pushing the EC on this."
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