The Department for Transport has invented a form of trailer registration to make sure that heavy trailers, for which mandatory Type Approval doesn’t start 29 October 2012, don’t go to work without approval. The Vehicle and Operator Standards Agency will register each trailer’s details, including those of approvals and the Certificate of Conformity. It will issue a unique number and document without which the trailer isn’t supposed to go to work. Vosa will also keep a record in a database. The DfT couldn’t say if the database will be available to the police or compatible with the Police National Computer to help the boys in blue tackle trailer crime. “With the exception of Greece, every other country in Europe seems to register trailers better, effectively extending the system used for other vehicles to cover trailers,” said Robin Dickeson, manager commercial vehicle affairs for the Society. “The data is available for and used in crime prevention and detection but it seems that option won’t be available to the UK’s enforcement and security agencies.”
Tags: semi trailer, Trailer registration
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