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VOSA.
« on: 10 February 2010, 22:50:29 »
Just had one of the local youths knock at the door asking for an Astra spring. The police made him follow them to the VOSA testing area & he now has the equivalent of a GV9 or prohibition... on a car????? He might have to have the whole car retested not just the new spring rechecked FFS. ::)
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« Reply #1 on: 10 February 2010, 22:59:49 »
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Just had one of the local youths knock at the door asking for an Astra spring. The police made him follow them to the VOSA testing area & he now has the equivalent of a GV9 or prohibition... on a car????? He might have to have the whole car retested not just the new spring rechecked FFS. ::)

Yup, correct.  He just had his MOT cert effectively ripped up, requiring a full retest (and pass) to be road legal, just like the heavies....
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« Reply #2 on: 10 February 2010, 23:10:06 »
Fair enough, IMHO. Vehicle has been pulled with a serious defect so make sure it's tip top before it's back on the road. You need an MOT every year anyway. Shouldn't be that onerous.

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« Reply #3 on: 10 February 2010, 23:16:21 »
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Fair enough, IMHO. Vehicle has been pulled with a serious defect so make sure it's tip top before it's back on the road. You need an MOT every year anyway. Shouldn't be that onerous.

Kevin
There goes my exhaust then. Seem like too many chiefs etc. Can't take a poo without some anorak who's attended a course, read a book been given a hi vis telling you how to wipe. :(
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« Reply #4 on: 10 February 2010, 23:19:47 »
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Fair enough, IMHO. Vehicle has been pulled with a serious defect so make sure it's tip top before it's back on the road. You need an MOT every year anyway. Shouldn't be that onerous.

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There goes my exhaust then. Seem like too many chiefs etc. Can't take a poo without some anorak who's attended a course, read a book been given a hi vis telling you how to wipe. :(

The VOSA check is just like the many 'Mermaid' stops that you, as an HGV (or LGV in newspeak) have undertaken.  Its basically a roadside MOT.  If the fella failed the roadside test then, ergo, he would have failed if he had taken the car for a full blown test that day.

We all know an MOT is barely worth the paper its written on but, if it were not for the testing, then there would be a fair old prportion of scrappy wrecks driving around now, just like there used to be in the days of the escort and Cortina.

And there were a fair few rustbuckets of other makes making the rounds then as well!!
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« Reply #5 on: 10 February 2010, 23:27:21 »
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 just like there used to be in the days of the escort and Cortina.

And there were a fair few rustbuckets of other makes making the rounds then as well!!

I have you know that my Cortina was









a rot box too!  ::)  ::)  ::)
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« Reply #6 on: 10 February 2010, 23:29:45 »
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 just like there used to be in the days of the escort and Cortina.

And there were a fair few rustbuckets of other makes making the rounds then as well!!

I have you know that my Cortina was









a rot box too!  ::)  ::)  ::)

I had one like that, but there were still MOT's, but perhaps a little less thorough.... :-X
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« Reply #7 on: 10 February 2010, 23:39:19 »
Operation Mermaid, in case some are wondering...

Its old, but you get the gist...

http://www.met.police.uk/traffic/news/opmermaid.htm
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« Reply #8 on: 11 February 2010, 00:08:59 »
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Fair enough, IMHO. Vehicle has been pulled with a serious defect so make sure it's tip top before it's back on the road. You need an MOT every year anyway. Shouldn't be that onerous.

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There goes my exhaust then. Seem like too many chiefs etc. Can't take a poo without some anorak who's attended a course, read a book been given a hi vis telling you how to wipe. :(

The VOSA check is just like the many 'Mermaid' stops that you, as an HGV (or LGV in newspeak) have undertaken.  Its basically a roadside MOT.  If the fella failed the roadside test then, ergo, he would have failed if he had taken the car for a full blown test that day.

We all know an MOT is barely worth the paper its written on but, if it were not for the testing, then there would be a fair old prportion of scrappy wrecks driving around now, just like there used to be in the days of the escort and Cortina.

And there were a fair few rustbuckets of other makes making the rounds then as well!!
Understood B. I'm not an anarchist, we need proper police to maintain, protect, serve etc. I accept we can't have ropey old cars/trucks flying about, fair go. Point is many Vosa operatives hav'nt a clue what they're doing. I'm not getting mixed up with the traffic d*ckheads who shut a motorway down because a sparrow got run over, imean Vosa. Recently the adr laws changed. The driver now only has to carry a dgn not a tremcard. Instead we have to carry a chart showing each class, related hazards & our adr. I was kept nearly 3 hours nr Huddersfield on the M62 because i could'nt show a tremcard which i no longer needed to carry. The bloke did'nt have a clue & tbh i don't blame him. Rules & regs have gone too far, i'd struggle to take all that on board just for it all to be updated again & again. Again we need rules for eveyones safety but i think i'm able to do my own risk assesment to climb a ladder & clean my upstairs windies/clear the guttering without having to achieve a degree in tower scaffolding without a minibus load of so called experts who probably live with thier mums & have never had a girlfriend & a helicopter hovering overhead in case i need a plaster or break a nail....enough is enough. Surely we can decide some things for ourselves? :o
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« Reply #9 on: 11 February 2010, 00:15:27 »
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« Reply #10 on: 11 February 2010, 00:30:47 »
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... of so called experts who probably live with thier mums & have never had a girlfriend  .......

Sounds like a job for the OOF student!!!  ::)  ::)  ::)  ::)  :y
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« Reply #11 on: 11 February 2010, 00:52:04 »
I had the "roadside MOT" courtesy of Belfast Traffic Branch in 1978. The list of things they found wrong with my old HB Viva was so long that I took it to the local banger track that weekend and sent it out with a bang - literally. ::) ;D
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« Reply #12 on: 11 February 2010, 00:54:26 »
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I had the "roadside MOT" courtesy of Belfast Traffic Branch in 1978. The list of things they found wrong with my old HB Viva was so long that I took it to the local banger track that weekend and sent it out with a bang - literally. ::) ;D
I love HB Vivas!!! 8-) :y
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« Reply #13 on: 11 February 2010, 00:57:43 »
you cant have owned one then Guy. ::) ;D ;D
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you cant have owned one then Guy. ::) ;D ;D
Ive had three mate. They were all white. One saloon that never ran right, one estate that only ran with a huge landrover battery that needed a sack to insulate it from the bonnet which had to be tied down, & another saloon white again with a red boot & bonnet, 2door SL90 with the better dash so the keys did'nt fall out on the floor when driving like a d*ck jumping over things in a place i should never have been & was banned. I was only 18 or 19 in old money!!!! ::)
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