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Vasa officers stop HGV driver from returning to services
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By Roanna Aviso) A HAULIER HAS called on Vosa to clarify its policy on where trucks should be left when they have been issued with an immediate PG9.
Peter Harding, the owner of Haverfordwest. Dyfed-based haulage operation Peter Harding Freight International. raised the point because one of his drivers was left parked in a lay-by on the A55 with no facilities for 43 hours in freezing temperatures after receiving an immediate P09.
Harding's complaint is that his driver was not allowed to return to the services that Vosa officers had taken him past.
"The Vosa officers refused to escort my driver back to the services and instead took him to the next lay-by where there were no facilities. Since the problem with the indicator took 43 hours to fix, the driver was stuck without any facilities for 43 hours" Harding complained that while he understands vehicles issued with an immediate PG9 have to be taken off the road, Vosa should consider a driver's human rights and escort them to a safe and secure place with facilities to park.
A Vosa spokeswoman says: "The Road Traffic Act provides examiners with exemption provisions, where limited use can be made of the vehicle so that it can be removed to a more suitable location where the defect can be remedied.
"Minimising the distance a vehicle is permitted to travel is a common condition imposed; examiners will have to treat each situation differently and impose conditions according to the circumstances and defects."
In response to Harding's concern about safe and secure parking for vehicles with prohibitions, Vosa says all sites are risk-assessed to ensure they are safe and comply with all relavent legislation.
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