The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) flexed its new found muscles for the media last week, when it handed out more than £1,000 worth of fines at a publicity event to launch its new roadside powers.
Some 30 HGVs were stopped and inspected at Leatherhead last Thursday, June 4, and a series of on the spot fines were handed out including five immediate and two delayed mechanical prohibitions, five prohibitions for overloaded vehicles and one prohibition for a drivers’ hours offence.
Agency officials handed out nine deposit notices for various offences to the value of £880, while an imobiliser was fitted to a Bulgarian vehicle whose driver failed to make a payment of £260 for a tyre bulge and overload.
