Off-the-road orders dropping
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PROHIBITION orders were the cause of more than 1,000 of 29,000 lorries tested being taken off the road last year, says the report of the Metro politan LA issued last week.
The report reveals that the proportion of lorries failing the MeT test at the first attempt is dropping. In the past year 14.8 per cent failed but in the previous year 18.9 per cent needed repairs.
During the year 600 immediate off-the-road prohibition orders were issued in the London area and another 1,965 delayed orders were issued. In another 2,440 cases the owners of the vehicles were ordered to carry out repair work in a given time.
Roadside checks carried out 21 times during the year revealed that 277 of the 569 vehicles examined were giving off excessive fumes.
But during the year the number of heavy lorries examined as a result of accidents dropped by around a quarter from 215 to 159 and the police asked for 106 defective goods vehicles to be inspected against 131 during the previous year.