Spot Checks to Continue
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THE increased effort devoted to spot checks of goods vehicles did not appear yet to have brought any general improvements, said the Minister of Transport in the Commons this week.
Nevertheless, operators had been induced to take collective measures to improve vehicle maintenance standards and he particularly welcomed the initiative of the Traders Road Transport Association in establishing a maintenance inspection service.
Mr. Fraser promised that the spot checks would continue and added that he was also pressing on with his plan for the annual testing of heavier goods vehicles.
Earlier, Mr. Stephen Swingler, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry. reported that in the two years to the end of September spot checks had been intensified and about 108,000 prohibition notices (25.000 immediate) had been issued. During this period about 239,000 goods vehicles had been checked.