Safety blitz on caravans on Bruce Hwy

Do you know what options did they give the overloaded vans?
PeteM

Were they just looking at vans or over GVM cars as well?

Were any of the "rigs" cars without trailers or vans?

About time, the overweight issue has been long overdue for attention by the authorities.

At least now you can get pass them LOL

Honky

I know the post is about vans, but there are many, many travelling vehicles on the road that are overloaded. For many it is easy to see which vehicles are overloaded with no trailer or van.

So maybe they will start targeting all vehicles. Get the wallets out boys and girls if they do. Trust me it is fairly easy to pick and if the inspector is wrong you can just go on your way.

About time.
maybe now their head lights won't need adjusting.
i see heaps that obviously have too much gear on board including the kitchen sink (which is standard issue these days) but a lot isn't !

This sort of thing DOES happen from time to time.

The transport inspectors are only too aware of the issues..they know What they are looking for a know they will find it and plenty of it.

Not so common these days, but before nationwide standardised towing regulations QLD transport and the police used to set up just north of the NSW border....and turn round caravans by the dozen, that may have been lagal in NSW or VIC but not QLD.

It is not uncommon to see a transport inspection point set up just near the whitsunday turn off.

There where a couple of operations inspecting vehicles as the came off the beach near Tewantin at the end of long weekends......they wrote tickets till they ran out of books to write on......lots of modified 4wds had to be towed or trailerd long distances..many as far as the NSW border..when they magicly became legal again.

Sunshine coast resident posters where reporting a lot of people being booked for oversized tyres on 4wds, a while back.

There is a crew and rig of gear that appears anywhere in NQ complete with scales and a shaker trailer...they inspect anything that moves.

There is a park down near the old Logan Butter Factory where they set up an inspection operation regularly......they line em up by the dozen....everything from breath and licence checks, thru to full vehicle inspections...they do very good business.

Havn't seen it for years...But they set up at my local tip and inspected every trailer comming and going.

In a slightly different note..there was a blitz down the port of Brisbane a few years ago...they targeted navigatin lights.......again the wrote tickets till they ran out of ticket books to write em in......it was reported in the press that they wrote something like 400 tickets over a week end......on nav lights alone.

You simply can not rely on them being interested in one thing or being in one place.

Sometimes these are officially programmed operations targeing specific issues.

Police do get regular bullitens drawing their attention to specific issues.

Particular coppers or transport inspectors my get a personal bee in their bonnet about a particular issue and get particularly interested in that issue.......perhaps they dragged someones sorry ass out of a wreck, or had to inform a bereved relative or may be their mrs got menaced by sum muppet in a monster truck 4wd....who knows.

Or perhaps the vehicle just looks so obviulsy dodgy that the copper simply could not let it pass.

Unfortunately there seem to be plenty out there who just don't care, cant be bothered making sure their rig is right or thing they wont get caught.

There are a lot of 4wds and caravans that are illegal in a variety of ways..and yes overloading is very common.

SO.....do you know what your rig weighs.....and do you fully understand your GVM and towing capacity issues.

cheers

Spoke to cousin who lives Cordalba last night & the local grape vine Childers, ATC, Cordalba has heard nothing. "Near" could be anywhere in any direction!

Last weekend the blitz was on at Longreach , H/way blocked both directions ALL vehicles stopped , Blow and Swab , licence checked , rego checked, while transport do a quick walk round vehicle , anything that looked even slightly "off" moved for more intensive inspection , 4 days and 24 hrs per day , Trucks and road trains trying the sneak way from North and west by diverting through Muttaburra and Aramac were stung buy the local police , …..

I have no doubt the Cootes transport crash and fire in NSW and the subsequent inspection and fines imposed on their fleet for defects has prompted the police and transport authorities in other states to increase their focus on the whole gamut of road users.

Rightly so, we are all entitled to the expectation that defective vehicles are removed from our roads.