Since late 2022 Highway Patrol officers from the Ballarat and Moorabool Police Services Areas have joined forces to crack down on potentially dangerous trucks and buses. We spent an hour with the team and every single truck we saw pulled over had an issue.
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00:20 The first truck was, as you know, it's a heavy vehicle and he's supposed to carry his work diary.
00:26 So the first thing we asked for his work diary and he isn't carrying it.
00:30 So his explanation was that he's taking the truck to the mechanic and he's not supposed to carry it.
00:35 But that's not the thing because given that he's 12 ton or more at any given time, if he's driving the truck he's supposed to carry it.
00:43 And then we found a few...
00:45 Even if you're taking it to a mechanic?
00:47 Yeah, all the time.
00:49 And then regarding to his prime mover, what we found was there was like nasty oil leaks under his sump.
00:56 So we defected the prime mover for him to take it to the mechanics and get it fixed.
01:01 So that's not just dangerous, I mean the engine could catch fire, but it's pollution too, isn't it?
01:06 Yes, spot on.
01:07 And then given that they are...
01:09 You know, it belongs to a company and they have to maintain that high standards.
01:13 Hence he got a ticket for not having the work diary and then he got a defect notice to get his oil leaks fixed.
01:21 It'll take a couple of minutes to do.
01:40 So, this is the dog power. What we are looking at is just basically any structural damages, any mechanical damages, any defects that we can find.
01:50 So straight away, by looking at the rims I can say that it's been used and abused.
01:55 The tyres, the structure is gone.
01:58 So, just imagine they are carrying a lot of air and he's supposed to cover the load.
02:06 You can see that it's not covered, so that means that it's not working.
02:10 Is there a load in there at the moment?
02:11 Yes, he says that he's carrying soil.
02:13 So I'm basically looking that, you know, I want him to work on the rims.
02:18 The tyres are already gone.
02:20 Even though the tyres are good as tread, but if it is structural damage, he cannot have that.
02:26 Here we've got oil leaking.
02:30 Yes, can you see it there?
02:33 Okay, and that can spill on the road and cause pollution, that's an issue?
02:38 Yes, we can straight away see that there is a mechanical defect in there, just to be rectified.
02:52 The signs are good, but given that the tyres are damaged, this has to go as a defect for them to rectify and then go back on the road.
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