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Vosa data not 100% accurate'
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A VEHICLE examiner conceded that the Vosa annual test pass rate figures were not 100% accurate, when Appleton-based RJ Edwards & Sons Ltd faced Patrick Mulvenna, the North Western Traffic Commissioner.
The company holds a licence for 23 vehicles and 27 trailers and, in adjourning the proceedings for an up-to-date maintenance investigation, the DTC warned that drivers found not to be carrying out their daily walk-round checks properly would be called before him for consideration of action against their vocational driving entitlement.
Vehicle examiner Robert Dalton said that the Vosa figures did not include trailers, and if vehicles were presented by a maintenance contractor using their own account, the pass or fail didn't go on the record of the 0-licence holder.
During a maintenance investigation in April, he examined three vehicles and three trailers, issuing two delayed prohibitions for deep cuts in tyres exposing the breaker cords. In the past 12 months, the annual test failure rate was 45.45% compared with the national average of 30.17%.
He said that he felt that the company was making efforts to improve; and he agreed that the company's pass rate had significantly improved and that the prohibition rate was improving.
Director and transport manager Geoffrey Edwards said the company had written to its maintenance contractor requesting them to undertake full tests on vehicles and trailers prior to being presented for annual test, said Edwards. When he looked into the test history from the test cards over the past 12 months, he found that the pass rate was 78.05%.
The company had embarked upon a new driver training programme and the drivers were now more aware of what they needed to do. Recommendations by a consultant engineer were being implemented.