Service and MPs are being lobbied by haulage safety campaign
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Brake director Mary Williams is also writing to the Attorney General and is pushing for a Parliamentary early-day motion asking for "statutory clarification to enable serious sentences to be incurred for gross ignorance of maintenance laws".
The action follows an Appeal Court hearing last month where an appeal by haulage director Noel Loukes against his conviction for aiding and abetting dangerous driving was upheld. One of his trucks caused the death on the M1 in 1993 of Rotherhatn man Paul Turner.
Loukes' driver has been cleared of dangerous driving.
The Crown Prosecution Service is seeking leave to appeal to the House of Lords on a point of law raised in the Loukes case: it wants to argue that the offence of dangerous driving should be more widely interpreted to include death through badly maintained vehicles.
Brake's move on maintenance coincides with the recruitment of two corporate members, BBA Friction Group and TN Friction Products, both of which supply brake parts.
Brake also plans to campaign for minimum quality standards for safety-critical truck parts and tighter controls on training for lorry mechanics.