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ScaredyCat
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PostPosted: 21:19 - 06 Sep 2014    Post subject: Crackdown on defective fuel systems Reply with quote
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Following a Highways Agency (HA) report on the effect of diesel fuel spills on the road network, Department for Transport (DfT) asked us to review the sanctions we issue at the roadside for vehicles with defective fuel tanks and systems.

Last year HA reported 255 fuel spills, including on dual carriageways and motorways, resulting in lane closures and significant delays. The risks to road safety are obvious, but what you may not know is that it takes on average 5 hours to clear a fuel spill. You can imagine the disruption this causes to traffic. During roadside checks between 2013 to 2014, DVSA examiners detected 2,390 fuel system defects and issued over 1,500 prohibitions to vehicles with defective fuel systems.

We’ve reviewed our sanctions for defective fuel systems and agreed some changes with DfT. The main difference is that we’ll now only issue immediate prohibitions for defective fuel systems and leaks. We have communicated these to the trade associations and updated the changes into the Categorisation of Defects and Enforcement Sanctions Policy.

An immediate prohibition will be given for:

missing or ineffective fuel cap or sealing arrangement
fuel leak caused by a defect, contaminating the road surface
insecure fuel tank where detachment is imminent


https://movingon.blog.gov.uk/crackdown-on-defective-fuel-systems/


Not sure who will be enforcing this .. also It's already an offence to leak fuel onto the Public Highway - 1968 Traffic Act (Construction and Use Regulations).. So will it matter? :/
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PostPosted: 22:34 - 06 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
I welcome them clamping down on anyone spilling diesel,
Not bothered about petrol as it evaporates.
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PostPosted: 23:32 - 06 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Penalty for oil (fuel or lubrication) spills should be summary roadside execution by gunshot to the head.

Thing is, having 20,000 mouse-nudgers in DVSA Central sending out Strongly Worded Memos does sod all if only 2 of them are actually out on the road doing spot checks.
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PostPosted: 00:37 - 07 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just something else the MIGHT be acted upon if that rarest of animals, a copper, happens to be in the vicinity when something happens.

Add it to seat belts, mobile phones, reading the paper etc. etc.

Lack of policing make all these laws a joke.
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PostPosted: 09:11 - 07 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's irrelevant to us.
We need build regulations that make over-filling impossible and immobilise a vehicle with fuel leaking from anywhere. Even then it wouldn't apply to foreign trucks crossing from the third world Europe
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PostPosted: 09:36 - 07 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mmm, that sounds like the sort of thing that gives Brussels a raging legislative lob on.
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PostPosted: 09:54 - 07 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Andy_Pagin wrote:
It's irrelevant to us.
We need build regulations that make over-filling impossible and immobilise a vehicle with fuel leaking from anywhere. Even then it wouldn't apply to foreign trucks crossing from the third world Europe

Continental roads are so much better than UK roads that you made me laugh! I've seen more broken down cars by the side of the motorway in UK than anywhere else on western Europe too.
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PostPosted: 10:02 - 07 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was thinking more of the ex-soviet countries that have joined the EU.
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PostPosted: 13:21 - 07 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
last year when I binned the bike down the road I ground a hole in my starter motor cover, resulting in the bike leaking oil all over the road. After pushing the bike home I grabbed a load of sawdust out of the rabbit shed a chucked a load of it all over the the puddles of oil back where I binned it. Is this the correct thing to do in this situation?
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ScaredyCat
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PostPosted: 13:46 - 07 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
el_oso wrote:
last year when I binned the bike down the road I ground a hole in my starter motor cover, resulting in the bike leaking oil all over the road. After pushing the bike home I grabbed a load of sawdust out of the rabbit shed a chucked a load of it all over the the puddles of oil back where I binned it. Is this the correct thing to do in this situation?


You could always call your local highways agency / council (depending on the road) and report an oil spillage. You should get a reference number. They may well do a better job of clearing it up.
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PostPosted: 13:48 - 08 Sep 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
barrkel wrote:
Andy_Pagin wrote:
It's irrelevant to us.
We need build regulations that make over-filling impossible and immobilise a vehicle with fuel leaking from anywhere. Even then it wouldn't apply to foreign trucks crossing from the third world Europe

Continental roads are so much better than UK roads that you made me laugh! I've seen more broken down cars by the side of the motorway in UK than anywhere else on western Europe too.


It's because the skint peoples in euroland don't use the motorway for risk of forking out 122 euros for being dragged off the motorway at the next junction, in the UK, calling greenflag for the 6th time using their £35 a year membership is not a concern.
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