Dealer crackdown
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• Truck dealers will have to identify unroadworthy vehicles on their forecourts with windscreen signs if amendments to the Road Traffic Bill are adopted.
The proposals from the Institute of Trading Standards Administration are designed to stamp out 'cowboy' dealers. They will be discussed by MPs over the next couple of weeks and are supported by the Retail Motor Industry Federation, which represents 1,200 truck dealers.
'The amendments also include authorising trading standards officers to check vehicles for sale on forecourts are roadworthy.
In addition, insurance companies would have to surrender details of written-off vehicles to the DVLA, which would hold and update a central register.
Such vehicles could not be used again until they had been made roadworthy and passed a safety check.