Plating and testing examination procedure
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• In preparation for the goods vehicle plating and testing scheme which starts in October 1968, the Minister of Transport has now issued directions setting out the examination procedure.
The directions state that all examinations of heavy goods vehicles must take place at Ministry Testing Stations; that they must be carried out, as necessary, by roller brake testing machines and other suitable apparatus and that visual or other physical methods can be used for tests which do not require apparatus. Standard methods of goods vehicle examination have already been published in the "Goods Vehicle Tester's Manual".
The directions make it clear that examiners are not required to dismantle parts or equipment of vehicles and are not to handle any load carried by a vehicle.
Copies of the directions entitled "Road Safety Act, 1967—Directions by the Minister of Transport as to the manner in which examinations of goods vehicles are to be carried out under Section 9 of the Act" can be obtained From I-1M Stationery Office, price 9d.