Majority of Tractor
Trailers Do Not Count
With Vehicular
Inspection
The majority of trailers
on the roads today have
not passed the annual
vehicular inspection,
Riteve, hauling all
kinds of loads on major
highways and secondary
roads.
According to Riteve
figures for 2007, of the
10.000 registered
trailers only 3.163 were
submitted to the
inspection and of that
number only 461 passed
inspection.
The news is alarming as
more and more trucks and
trailers are the cause
of fatal accidents, like
the truck filled with a
load of bananas that
flipped on its side
killing one of the two
women pedestrians.
The accident occurred in
Moravia as the driver of
the truck took a sharp
turn detouring road
construction. Witnesses
say that the back wheels
of the trailer slipped
into a ditch, the
trailer ending up on its
side.
Inspection of the
trailer revealed that
the tires were well
worn, a condition that
would never have passed
the Riteve inspection.
In addition to the
trailers not being
inspected, owners of the
tractors pulling the
trailers are also
failing to submit to the
annual revision.
Riteve figures for 2008
show that only 2.185
tractors or less than
20% of all registered
tractors have been
submitted to the
inspection and only 60
trailers.
Traffic laws are clear
that no matter the size
of the trailer, they
require a license plate
and a vehicular
inspection to obtain
permission to circulate
on public roads.
Traffic authorities are
expected to begin a
crack down on trucks and
their trailers.
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