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Budget freeze on VI tests
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• The Vehicle Inspectorate forecasts that it will be constrained by its budget from increasing its enforcement work during the 1989/90 period even though the total HGV and PSV parc is expected to grow. In the Vehicle Inspectorate's 1989/90 business plan, chief executive Ron Oliver says 0licence and spot checks on HGVs will reach 143,500 this year, the same as 1988, The VI is poised to introduce a scheme early in June to allow truck and bus operators to use roller brake testing equipment at local Department of Transport test stations.
"We are about to go live on this at eight stations," says Oliver. Edinburgh, Liverpool, Stoke and Northampton are definitely in the eight with the other four yet to be chosen. El Severe staff shortages have hampered the work of the Vehicle Inspectorate, especially in the South East, but a sustained recruitment drive has got things "just about under control", says Oliver. "In the London area, we were forced to issue many more exemptions that we would have liked. In the 12 months to 31 March 1989 DTp vehicle examiners weighed 129,007 HGVs, includng 19,027 at ports: 10,624 were given immediate prohibitions for weight and hours offences, including 3,284 foreign trucks.