TC worried about VI policy
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• Senior Traffic Commissioner Michael Betts is worried about the Vehicle Inspectorate's policy of endorsing some prohibition notices as showing a significant maintenance failure.
During an Edinburgh public inquiry, the IC remarked that "5" markings were essentially a subjective assessment by the vehicle examiner, and he was not sure that he liked the whole principle. Every immediate prohibition was imposed for a safety defect, he pointed out Sometimes there was an unfortunate tendency to concentrate on S-marked prohibitions, but the legislation required him to consider all prohibitions, whether endorsed or not.
The public had the right to know that action would be taken against operators of prohibited vehicles, said Betts. if someone was knocked down by a vehicle with defective brakes it did not matter if it was the operator's, the driver's or somebody else's fault—they were just as dead.