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Free IRTE parking brake safety labels

29th October 1998
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• In response to last week's European Week of Safety and Health, the road safety campaigning group Brake has made Driver Responsibility its current theme, with particular emphasis on vehicle maintenance safety.

In 1995 the IRTE drew attention to the danger of articulated combinations rolling away while the driver is engaged in connecting air and electrical lines during tractor-trailer coupling operations.

Apparently the problem is still very much with us, usually because the driver fails to apply the tractor's parking brake before leaving the cab to couple the lines. As a quick and cheap method of creating awareness about this, the IRTE has produced self-adhesive labels which are designed to be fixed to tractor and trailer close to the couplings.

The IRTE is offering these labels free of charge for a limited time. They are supplied in sheets of 12, and up to five sheets are available per applicant Requests must be made in writing, together with an SAE, to IRTE Safety Label Offer, 22 Greencoat Place, London SWIP IPR.

The offer ends on 1 November, at which point the labels will cost £2.50 a sheet.

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