26-02-2023, 07:26 PM
Noticias:
Transport employers will make a lockout tomorrow in the islands.
The lockout can become indefinite and cause a real drama on the islands.
Tomorrow, Monday, transport entrepreneurs in the Canary Islands will begin an indefinite lockout in demand of a regulation of the use of the tachograph that adapts to the reality of the Archipelago.
This is a lockout, so trucks will not leave their garages. In principle, as explained to DIARIO DE AVISOS, the president of the Federation of Transport Entrepreneurs (FET), José Agustín Espino, there will be no concentration or row of trucks on the road. The platform will concentrate on the docks waiting for the progress of Events and the meeting with the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Minister of Transport, Sebastián Franquis, which will be at noon.
This meeting is the last cartridge of the Executive to prevent the lockout from becoming indefinite and causing a real drama in the Islands with the distribution and supply of goods. "We hope that the government will make a move," Espino said.
But to understand this indefinite closure of the employers, we must first explain why it occurs. And the main motif is the tachograph. Tachographs are devices used to monitor and enforce rules on carriers' driving hours. These devices can record aspects such as driving times, speed or distance traveled, among other things. Its use is mandatory throughout the European territory. As stated in Regulation E.C. 561/2006, goods vehicles must carry a tachograph when the maximum authorized mass exceeds 3.5 tonnes, including any trailer or semi-trailer.
However, the European Union Mobility Package allows transport vehicles on islands of 2,300 square kilometres or less to do without the tachograph. The Spanish Government only applies this exception in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, leaving out the Canary and Balearic archipelagos. And it is understood that the journeys in the Islands will never be as long as in peninsular territory.
That said, when the tachograph arrived in the Canary Islands in 2010, the entrepreneurs gave themselves a year of testing and, according to Espino, it was shown that its application in the Islands was a "real disaster". "That's why we asked to be exempt from its use and in 2012 we were about to get it. We had agreed an agreement with Madrid, but the elections came and everything remained in the air," he explained.
What carriers demand is that the tachograph be modulated to adapt to the circumstances of the Canary Islands because they consider that its mandatory use in the Islands, due to its small area, generates bureaucratic difficulties and unnecessary investments that are not justified by the existence of problems or breaches of the breaks, since the distances traveled are short and, Therefore, driving times are very limited.
In this sense, they have put on the table a proposal for the exclusive use of the tachograph as an element of control of the working day, as demanded by the unions. "It can be done and it's legal," Espino said, "but they have flatly refused."
Transport employers will make a lockout tomorrow in the islands.
The lockout can become indefinite and cause a real drama on the islands.
Tomorrow, Monday, transport entrepreneurs in the Canary Islands will begin an indefinite lockout in demand of a regulation of the use of the tachograph that adapts to the reality of the Archipelago.
This is a lockout, so trucks will not leave their garages. In principle, as explained to DIARIO DE AVISOS, the president of the Federation of Transport Entrepreneurs (FET), José Agustín Espino, there will be no concentration or row of trucks on the road. The platform will concentrate on the docks waiting for the progress of Events and the meeting with the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Minister of Transport, Sebastián Franquis, which will be at noon.
This meeting is the last cartridge of the Executive to prevent the lockout from becoming indefinite and causing a real drama in the Islands with the distribution and supply of goods. "We hope that the government will make a move," Espino said.
But to understand this indefinite closure of the employers, we must first explain why it occurs. And the main motif is the tachograph. Tachographs are devices used to monitor and enforce rules on carriers' driving hours. These devices can record aspects such as driving times, speed or distance traveled, among other things. Its use is mandatory throughout the European territory. As stated in Regulation E.C. 561/2006, goods vehicles must carry a tachograph when the maximum authorized mass exceeds 3.5 tonnes, including any trailer or semi-trailer.
However, the European Union Mobility Package allows transport vehicles on islands of 2,300 square kilometres or less to do without the tachograph. The Spanish Government only applies this exception in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, leaving out the Canary and Balearic archipelagos. And it is understood that the journeys in the Islands will never be as long as in peninsular territory.
That said, when the tachograph arrived in the Canary Islands in 2010, the entrepreneurs gave themselves a year of testing and, according to Espino, it was shown that its application in the Islands was a "real disaster". "That's why we asked to be exempt from its use and in 2012 we were about to get it. We had agreed an agreement with Madrid, but the elections came and everything remained in the air," he explained.
What carriers demand is that the tachograph be modulated to adapt to the circumstances of the Canary Islands because they consider that its mandatory use in the Islands, due to its small area, generates bureaucratic difficulties and unnecessary investments that are not justified by the existence of problems or breaches of the breaks, since the distances traveled are short and, Therefore, driving times are very limited.
In this sense, they have put on the table a proposal for the exclusive use of the tachograph as an element of control of the working day, as demanded by the unions. "It can be done and it's legal," Espino said, "but they have flatly refused."