Random roadworthiness checks.

Cantona's Collars

Heard an ad on the radio that random roadworthiness checks are to be carried out on vans & work vehicles and if there's problems they could be taken off the road on you.

Is this another safety campaign or revenue raising exercise? I don't see too many scrapheaps of vans on the roads these days as lads tend to look after them - no van,no work.

bigblackmug

Happens in Germany all the time.
the traffic cops concentrate on goods vehicles and vehicles with trailers.
they especially love pulling over Dutch tourists with old caravans on which the tyres have perished due to age. The further south the more they love it.

Traffic cops generally leave you alone if you have a well maintained car. They let the speed cameras catch you speeding and the anpr knows if your papers are in order. they concentrate on the unroadworthy stuff and dangerous driving.

dh0011

If they wanted a handy day of seizing cars then all the gards have to do is look at the places students park their cars around UCC. The amount of bald tyres I pass every day is crazy.

Faith+1

dh0011 wrote: »

If they wanted a handy day of seizing cars then all the gards have to do is look at the places students park their cars around UCC. The amount of bald tyres I pass every day is crazy.

Not to mention bald heads!:pac:

dh0011

well when i see a car with tyres like that I always wonder how good are the brakes ...
A lot of these cars dont have tax either.

bumper234

zerks wrote: »

Heard an ad on the radio that random roadworthiness checks are to be carried out on vans & work vehicles and if there's problems they could be taken off the road on you.

Is this another safety campaign or revenue raising exercise? I don't see too many scrapheaps of vans on the roads these days as lads tend to look after them - no van,no work.

About time imo, just because they look ok does not mean they are roadworthy, as has already been pointed out there are many bald tyres on the road (saw a car Sunday that hat the steel coming through what was left of the tread 2010 BMW).

Addmagnet

Brake lights not working, lenses missing, trailers whose lights don't work (or worse, the indicators work in direct opposite to the towing vehicle's), headlights that don't work, 'strange behaviour' from lights (e.g. Brake lights blinking when indicator turned on) as well as all the bald tyres and dangling bits of bodywork etc etc etc - surely people who drive vehicles with these issues will have the same cavalier attitude to obtaining the proper paperwork.
I'd be happy to see the authorities stopping such people.

CreepingDeath

zerks wrote: »

I don't see too many scrapheaps of vans on the roads these days as lads tend to look after them - no van,no work.

You're assuming everyone who drives a van is a legitimate tradesman... plenty of charity clothes robbers collectors driving wrecks.
A year ago I noticed the local ice cream van had a dangerous/obviously illegally bald tyre which I pointed out to them, but wouldn't be surprised if it's still the same.

So city centre checkpoints are probably not as successful as catching them in the suburbs/country roads.

CiniO

Finally they are going to do something useful.