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There has been a multi agency operation running from 25th to 29th July at Sandbach targeting commercial vehicles results to follow
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Sandbach operation …100 stopped 145 offences 50 tickets issued 17 vehicles prohibited 3 seized and £12,250 in fines and penalties
9:32 AM - 1 Aug 2016
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There has been a multi agency operation running from 25th to 29th July at Sandbach targetting commerical vehicles results to follow
9:30 AM - 1 Aug 2016
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Sandbach operation …100 stopped 145 offences 50 tickets issued 17 vehicles prohibited 3 seized and £12,250 in fines and penalties
9:32 AM - 1 Aug 2016
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More for the Christmas club 
I’d say that’s a high percentage of vehicles that had some issues of one thing or another .
bald bloke:
I’d say that’s a high percentage of vehicles that had some issues of one thing or another .
I think they know who they’re after. Hence a very good success rate
I notice the ‘surge’ in Police Traps since Brexit.
Honestly !
What is the reasons for ‘Seizing’ a vehicle ?
I have had one prohibited for overloading (20+ years ago) and one where the ministry bloke pointed out my reflective zig zag things on the back were on the wrong side - then very kindly helped me change them over (it always pays to be nice with them lol)
Bluey Circles:
What is the reasons for ‘Seizing’ a vehicle ?
Being uninsured would be the main reason.
I doubt they’re throwing the book at the odd sidelight out.
Seized vehicles and prohibitions are serious stuff, they know who to look at and i have no problem whatsoever with the wheeltappers doing their job.
Interesting to know what nationality the worse offenders were !!
The real Biffo:
Sandbach operation …100 stopped 145 offences 50 tickets issued 17 vehicles prohibited 3 seized and £12,250 in fines and penalties
9:32 AM - 1 Aug 2016
145 offences out of 100 vehicles? Ok, right. 
Were they offences that were particularly and potentially dangerous, or a zero tolerance policy for minor offences that were once over just dealt with as a warning.
12 grand raised…, can’ t help but take the cynical view that it was more revenue orientated done under the guise of safety.
But hey, that’s just me.
Dont come back with the inevitable ‘‘Well, would you rather…etc etc’’ .(fill in the blank with whatever potential rta disaster you can think of 
) cos the answer is No I would not, but it does not stop me looking for a hidden true financial agenda which is usually the case in anything like this.
Rob, Have a look a @Cheshire_CVU on twitter for stuff from last week. £980 for magnet user -non UK.
I can assure you, there is no financial agenda.
Example of snapped springs. Notice the rust, not just happened that day.
Yeh ok fair enough you have pointed out two offences which admittedlly justify an operation like this, and two which quite rightly should be clamped down on.
However for every one like that, what was the ratio there with minor offences, that were fined rather than warned, how many missing trailer plate fines were there, or empty washer bottles, or blown bulbs and the like.
That was my point. I’m all for safety etc, but still think the approach tends to be a bit over exuberant, with a priority given to financial gain.
Rob, to be fair i’ve never found VOSA or whatever the tappers are called this week to be like that at all.
Always found them decent enough to deal with the few times i’ve been pulled (usually weight check or random vehicle inspection) that included an 18 hour shift on a previous weeks tacho due to blow out on M11 with a car transporter on weirdo hard to find tyre sizes which saw ATS lad running all over east anglia to find a tyre, they could not have been more decent in attitude, and the over-hours no trouble because they could see it was genuine.
DCPC Mark said the UK authorities have no access to foreign operators OCRS, and intel is used and experience, that is correct, due to the record of each foreign vehicle entering and exiting the UK on a ferry or Channel Tunnel train .
Paper trail is also used and ANPR on most roads, bank receipts , fuel receipts, cctv at garages and customers reload and load depots can be used to find out where and what time a driver or vehicle was, and if that data did not match up with the tachograph records on daily/weekly mileage or rest periods, there is some explaining to do .
This was the case for Boyles transport, where drivers and the two bosses were sent to jail for fraud , in some cases, they were working for 21 hours with no rest or breaks .
While passing the DVSA checksite, on the M6 near Stafford, there is always the same company trucks parked up there for violations, the firm that hauls cars, empty still cages and agricultural machinery, orange trucks, with a Dutch name , but the drivers are not Dutch, foreign registration plates on the units .
A long time ago, i was stopped in the Basque area of Spain, i was asked where i had come from, so i told him Cherbourg, he looked at my tacho, and said, there is no way i can be where i was stopped, due to him taking the same journey in his caravan . No fine, he let me go after a lot of arguing .
Lots of love and hate for those having to do a disliked job, and no I don’t mean the drivers! 
We all want cowboys off the road and at the same time, don’t personally want to be scrutinised. But we can’t have one without the other…
I think the real problem is that drivers doing their best, from time to time have a bit of an issue in one way or another. And when the pay is crap, the potential of fines & points could really hurt. A blown bulbs obvious come to mind, but Robroy does having no screen wash really fit in to that category? 
It doesn’t run out overnight, just as a tyre goes the same way as your hair over time!
To me, it appears that fines for major and intentional faults are the biggest problem, as they are way too low when compared to minor accidental issues. In my opinion, deliberate tacho fraud should be 10k for the driver, with the truck impounded until firm is investigated and probably fined even more than the driver…
The real Biffo:
We’d soon carp on if a truck was let go with a serious fault and then was involved in a fatal
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Good on them I say.
I saw farmer Giles sitting on the naughty step at Harlow Checkpoint today, pulling a trailer that looked older than me, and more clapped out than Robroy
Seriously, I’m sure they mostly have a very high hit rate, because they don’t pull stuff over willy nilly, they have profiles of high risk operations and know what they are looking for. So if they reckon you are worth a tug, chances are its for a reason!