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13/7/2013 at 9:50am
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This MOT idea is great, but there are many on here who are saying its bad and can't be policed/regulated, but at the same time, the same people want it to be self regulated by the caravan clubs, what's the difference? NONE!
The clubs would not be able to manage this, their certifications would have no legal stature, the police could not pull you over and say that you can only tow a caravan if you have a certificate issued by a caravan club, what about people who don't want to belong to a club, of the total caravan population, how many people are not members?
If they decided to change the law so that vans were registered like other countries, with their own plate, it would be easy to spot people who had failed to register, and pull them over/remove them from the road until registered. You would have a grace period and a window of a several years to get compliant eg being a voluntary practice for several years.
The same happened with the theory test, and photo card driving licences.
You still don't have to have a photo card, but when you renew your licence, it will have to be replaced with a photo card, therefore, in years to come, there will only be photo card licences, ok it might be a long time, but eventually it will happen, same can be done with the caravan MOT.
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Quote: Originally posted by Thekilpins on 13/7/2013
This MOT idea is great, but there are many on here who are saying its bad and can't be policed/regulated, but at the same time, the same people want it to be self regulated by the caravan clubs, what's the difference? NONE!
I think the Clubs and the caravan industry could come up with self-regulation. Furthermore, these organisations have more awareness of caravan safety than any government body.
The Industry could set up the basic procedures, and the legality side would be endorsed by Government law and any enforcing actions be carried out by the police. Since ALL caravans would have to be either serviced and certificated by a recognised workshop, or checked and certificated only where servicing is DIY, actually being a member of a club would not be required.
If it was done by issuing a registration plate for each van, tracking down and registration would take years to accomplish; and no safety improvements would happen if initial application of a scheme only involved new vans from a certain date, and which would be under warranty and therefore serviced annually.
Another downside would be that the police randomly stopped and checked older vans, on the basis that these were liable to be the unsafe ones. This would almost certainly cause accusations of prejudicial behaviour - in a similar way that police 'stop-and-search' is currently under scrutiny.
The only way that the police could take action against these unregistered vans would be if, when stopped, they had failed to obtain a certificate to show completion of a service/certification within the last 12 months.
Also, if the Industry set up the procedure, as caravan workshops carried out service/certification checks, the details of the van and owner could be sent in to a central database, building up the information that the police would find necessary (similar to the DVLA), but which the police are ill-equipped to themselves carry out because of an already acute shortage of manpower.
Basically, it all comes down to a sensible use of logistics.
Bertie.
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