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PLANS to increase the distance that a vehicle may be
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diverted for weight or maintenance checks have been slammed by the Freight Transport Association as "unnecessary and without justification."
The proposals will mean that an operator who has not broken the law will be faced with "significant inconvenience and increased costs," says the FTA.
In a statement the FTA has also called for the use of roadside weighing equipment to filter out vehicles which appear to have broken the law and it suggests that once problems with the use of dynamic weighing equipment are solved this equipment could be used.
"The Department of Transport's contention that there is an element of danger implicit in all overloading which justifies insistence on clearance at a weighbridge is rejected by the FTA," it says.
And the FTA has come out against the rule that GV9 prohibitions should be cleared at testing stations.
It says that there are occasions when the fault can be rectified at the roadside and there are also times when the DTp would want to check that a vehicle has been repaired.