Glynparry25 wrote:

Pam beat me to it..... If you refuse to drive because the vehicle is unroadworthy and the boss fires you there is a lot of money comming your way.

If you drive a vehicle and it is unsafe or unroadworthy. It comes down to you.... not the boss who sits in an office and hasn't seen the vehicle for 3 months.

Glyn

Think you'll find it makes no difference. Boss has a duty of care to ensure vehicles are road worthy and legal. He would committ the offence of Cause or Permit, whether he has seen vehicle or not.

I run a fleet of vehicles and chek them fairly regulary. Although I insist the drivers check tyres, windscreen washer fluid, fill out log books etc, it's like talking to a brick wall !

In a previous life I may have had dealings with this sort of thing  2007 TD5 90 Hard Top

JWL wrote:

I must admit I quite welcome this sort of action as opposed to sitting waiting for speeders and other soft targets. A large physical prescence I feel is more of a message to those that can't be asked to comply by the rules like the rest of us. If you can't afford to put your motor on the road legally then stop buying your cans of lager and bottles of cider, stop smoking packets of fags at, what are they about £7 for 20 Buying a scratchcard every day would more than pay for my insurance. If the car is a necessity then the scroats have to go without, like the rest of us to make sure we do things properly.

Agree

There was a similar roadblock on the A9 near me a couple of weeks ago. This was the result:

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Tayside Police and VOSA crack down on motoring offences on the A9 Inverness-Perth Road, has revealed that off the 759 offences detected throughout the 10 day period of the enforcement, all but 72 related to speeding. All of the 687 speeding offences appear to have related to driving in excess of the speed limit and only four offences related to Careless or Dangerous Driving.

Speeding 687

Mobile Phone Offences 33

Overloaded Vehicles 11

No Insurance/Driving Licence/MOT 8

Driver's Hours Offences 7

Crossing Solid White Lines 6

Dangerous/Careless Driving 4

Defective Tyres 2

Seatbelt 1

As the police look at a line of vehicles coming towards them, they seem to home-in (as you would) on the cars that stand-out. By stand-out, I mean front fogs on, badly adjusted lights, headlamp out, noisy exhaust, old & rusty car etc... Every year the police do morning breath tests on the main roads into Edinburgh, a friend's wife was stopped a couple of years ago for driving with front fogs on, after a lecture, it was obvious the copper was getting his nose as close to get as possible to check her breath for alcohol.

I have no problem with this, I drive legally (well, usually ). If someone does nick my vehicle, or drive illegally so as to be a risk to others, I hope the cops do catch them...  Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's)

Glynparry25 wrote:

Pam beat me to it..... If you refuse to drive because the vehicle is unroadworthy and the boss fires you there is a lot of money comming your way.

If you drive a vehicle and it is unsafe or unroadworthy. It comes down to you.... not the boss who sits in an office and hasn't seen the vehicle for 3 months.

Glyn

From a truck driving point of view you would need a huge payout as you would almost certainly never work again in the industry. Too many people, too few jobs, employers won't give a job to a "nark". I get this myself, I might think a tyre doesn't look too clever, or whatever the issue is, and you always know the bosses will say "nah its fine". Its the driver who loses out, not them.

leeds wrote:

Is there any way of reporting vehicles with defective tyres?

The Filth wrote:

For non-emergencies dial 101 - In an emergency always dial 999

JWL wrote:

I will admit to driving offences when I was young, no insurance and bald tyres. The only speeding offence I've had was in my current Defender on the A38 in Bristol but what I will say that when I grew up, even more so when I had kids I realised that 90% of the offences that are flouted are plainly dangerous and can have such huge consequences on your life and the lives of others.