MOT for Lorry suspended

Jacquie66

Member
Livestock Farmer
I'm now looking into where do we stand with our insurance, we are a small but I would say at the moment important distribution center for chemicals for manufactures of feed/food/ and cleaning.

so we need to be on the road to be able to keep supplies in the factories but now I am not sure where we stand.
 

Netherfield

Member
Location
West Yorkshire
It happened some years ago when the testers went on strike, they sent out either 2 or 3 month test certificates, that was back in the day when HGV tests were on the month of first registration so when eventually tested you got either 9 or 10 months before next test, it caused chaos for a long time through shortage of dates.
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
I'm now looking into where do we stand with our insurance, we are a small but I would say at the moment important distribution center for chemicals for manufactures of feed/food/ and cleaning.

so we need to be on the road to be able to keep supplies in the factories but now I am not sure where we stand.

So just make sure your drivers are extra careful doing pre start checks and make sure faults are still fixed.
No MOT doesn't mean, run non compliant trucks.
 

Dr. Alkathene

Member
Livestock Farmer
Had a call from transport manager this morning wanting to bring forward deliveries if possible. As about a quarter of their trucks 6 weekly safety inspections run out in the next 12 days.

They didn’t seem sure where they stand legally & with insurance running HGV without the 6 weekly inspections?
 

caveman

Member
Location
East Sussex.
Point is.
With a regular full safety check and preventative maintainence regime in place, designed around the way and the conditions under which the truck is operated, plus a rigorous minor fault noting, recording and rectification system designed around the driver, a truck should be able to pass or be passable with a quick fix of a minor default at anytime.
Therefore.
Temporarily extending the yearly mot inspection is nothing more than suspending checking that the operator is complying with the conditions he "signs up to" when he is deemed to be professionally competent before being granted an operators licence.
 
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