Brake Testing on a regular basis can prevent organisations being convicted of serious traffic offences as one Staffordshire firm recently discovered. Stoke-on-Trent firm, Dime Metal Services had its licence revoked from 7 August, and its boss disqualified from applying for a new licence for 15 months.<\/p>\n
The operator has had its O-licence revoked after a Deputy Traffic Commissioner (DTC) described their vehicles as a “significant danger to other road users” due to lack of maintenance and regular testing of brakes and tyres. West Midlands Deputy Traffic Commissioner Roger Seymour said the company had shown an “almost total disregard of the law and obligations of operator licensing”.<\/p>\n
VOSA inspectors carried out maintenance investigations into the company and identified eight prohibitions – three of which were S-marked – were imposed on the firm. They are related to “very serious” brake and tyre issues.<\/p>\n
The DTC summarised “Looking at the evidence overall, I find that this operator has failed to discharge his responsibilities and undertakings to maintain his vehicles in a roadworthy condition to the point where the continued use of his vehicles constituted a significant danger to other road users.”<\/p>\n
The easiest way to prevent any prohibitions from VOSA however serious is to consider regular Brake Testing and Tyre Pressure Monitoring. By using a Brake Tester like\u00a0BrakeCheck<\/a>\u00a0you can demonstrate that you?ve been testing on a regular basis. Similarly a Tyre Pressure Monitor such as\u00a0Pressure Pro<\/a>\u00a0allows you to check you have the correct tyre pressure for your vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brake Check and Pressure Pro are two products to help maintain a vehicle correctly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n