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by Karen Miles • The police are expected to introduce a scheme similar to delayed prohibitions that will require hauliers caught driving trucks with mechanical defects to send in evidence showing the problem has been corrected.
The national commercial vehicle rectification scheme will give officers the power to force hauliers to fix minor mechanical offences—such as missing lights, minor tyre problems and broken tachograph seals—within 14 days. Until now police have had to chose between giving a caution or imposing a more serious penalty of an immediate prohibition.
Hauliers will be asked to prove the repair by producing an invoice showing completion of the work—not by subjecting their vehicle to the full or partial test required by the Vehicle Inspectorate after delayed and immediate prohibitions.
The Association of Chief Police Officers, which is expected to formally recommend the scheme to all its forces in August, says it will
monitor the situation c so that rogue operat caught if they send ii receipts.
ACP° is recommenc scheme after pilot sti. Durham and Essex. Roa is thought to improve a tors are forced to fix mechanical problen Durham 98% of operat ried out the necessary while mainstream defer cutions do not guar; repair.
The extension of the to commercial vehicles the introduction of a car in the 1980s. Since ti owners have had to pri repairs by obtaining ver from an MOT station police say that the refused to involve its ! mercial vehicle annual I tions in the police schem