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Hauliers aim criticism ovei tests squarely at VI faults

14th November 2002
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

re by Brian Weatherby and Jennifer Ball Operators have hlt back at claims that many of them are too lazy to adjust headlamp aim before submitting vehicles for their annual tests—this is the leading cause of test failures.

Hauliers claim that inconsistency at VI test stations is partly to blame. One Retford-based operator says our comments that operators do not take the annual test seriously ( CM 7-13 Nov were unjust "We always take our vehicles to the main agents to be prepared for testing.

"However, on some occasions even using their beam setter our trucks have not passed or adjustments have had to be made on test." he adds. "There are obviously some cowboy operators who do not bother, but we take maintenance checks seriously--headlights are checked every six weeks."

One Sussex-based operator who preferred not to be named says that after passing a pre-test inspection, including headlamp alignment, his 17-tanner failed Its test the following week on headlamp aim. And a Scottish operator with 10 trucks in his fleet says: We always put our vehicles In for a pre-test multi-check. We put one In the day before Its test, we'd paid money Into our account at the test station and everything was fine. The next day it failed on headlamp aim' David Roberts. director of T Roberts Haulage Contractors of Sheffield. thinks that the stations are putting too much Importance on headlamp aim. However, he adds that his local test station at Sheffield still allows minor adjustme the lamps during the test.

A spokeswoman for the V Inspectorate says it has done research into this problem: 'Early ir tIons have found that the main reas failure is that one headlamp is ; either higher, lower, left or right c other, which indicates an operator tenance issue."

• See News Analysis on Vi report, pages 16.


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