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MOT APPEAL
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QWe submitted a 38tonne plated Scania for MoT to our testing station. The vehicle had previously been thoroughly serviced and pre-MoT-checked by the contract maintenance girage. We also checked it ourselves.
The vehicle failed the MoT on low brake efficiency and an inoperative load sensor. When we got the vehicle back to our yard, we could find nothing wrong with the load sensor and when we put it onto the brake-tester at our contract maintenance garage, the readings were excellent. How do we appeal?
AAppeals are governed by The Goods Vehicles (Plating & Testing) Regulations 1988, which came into force on the 23 September 1988. SI No 1478, Regulation No 25 says: "Any person aggrieved by a determination made on first examination or on a consequent re-test of a vehicle, may appeal to the area manager for the Traffic Area in which the determination was made, and any person aggrieved by the determination of the area engineer under this regulation may appeal to the Secretary of State." You must lodge the appeal to the area engineer within 10 days, and any appeal to the Secretary of State within 14 days of the area engineer's determination. Appeal forms (available from the testing station) must be returned to the testing station.
However, you do not say whether the trailer accompanying your tractor was loaded or not, or whether the vehicle had just had a brake relined, which could have bedded in by the time you got to your garage.