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Test stations fail to spot dangers

21st September 1995
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• Truck testing stations are failing to spot dangerous vehicles because they are only interested in ''taking the money and hitting targets", according to one traffic examiner.

The allegations came after a trailer cleared of a prohibition at Peterborough test centre was issued with an immediate prohibition in a roadside check less than 24 hours later.

The trailer, belonging to Kettering-based haulier David Pack & Son, was given the allclear at 15:00hrs on 4 September, only to be stopped from continuing its journey at 09:20hrs the next morning.

The examiner says this is just the latest example of the "unbelievably poor standards at most testing stations". He adds that testing station managers know vehicles are slipping through the system but do nothing about it because they are under pressure to hit targets.

David Pack confirms the prohibition was issued but dismisses the incident as a difference of opinion between examiners and none of anyone else's business".

• A leaked letter in July showed a vehicle cleared at a south-eastern testing station was later picked up "with defects that must have been present during the test".

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People: David Pack
Locations: Kettering

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