Government proposes no MOT test for first 4 years

[flatyre]

if you would care to do your research, any vehicle like this can checked, and the driver/owner prosecuted the same as any vehicle requiring an mot, the RTA states " must be kept in a roadworthy and safe condition"

 

I'm perfectly aware of that, unfortunately many farmers fail to uphold this requirement, if farmers are allowed to judge the roadworthiness of their own vehicles why can't everyone else?

[Stoatally]

The standards that apply to 'agricultural vehicles' are also different iirc, when carrying road checks.

 

It's true though that it is the responsibility of the driver of any vehicle to ensure it meets road worthiness standards at all times, whether it needs an MOT or not. There are plenty of vehicles out there that are under the age of fist MOT that don't meet the standards because the owner / driver never checks.

[flatyre]

its human nature to abuse trust, that's why we have laws, we cannot be trusted to keep our vehicles in a roadworthy state for a number of reasons, some people can't afford it, some have the money but would rather spend it on other things, some don't have the tools to maintain a motor vehicle, and most wouldn't know how to, and that's why we have the mot. Why then is a certain area of society allowed to maintain their own vehicles and not permitted to put them through an official mot? Are farmer more trustworthy than anyone else? Surely if a farmer MUST keep his vehicle to the same standard as everyone else, why not just make him mot it seeing as it will obviously be in a passable condition? And if farmers are expected to keep their vehicles to mot standard surely then all farmer would need to be time served mechanics with fully fitted out garages, rolling roads for testing brakes, headlight alignment testers, the shaking vehicle lifts for testing bushes and wheel bearings etc! Its a joke:thumbdown:

 

True Stoatally vehicles can become unroadworthy before their first mot, and most people wouldn't check, but most people wouldn't suspect a nearly new car to be unfit for road use. However most of these "agricultural" vehicles are not new, they're quite old and became "agricultural" when they required too much work to pass an mot!

Edited January 25, 2017 by flatyre

[agrimog]

the agricultural exception is actually meant to apply to tractors, and similar, not end of life vehicles used to nip about the property, this is an explotied grey area, pc plod could stop one of these vehicles at any time on the highway and demand it passes a test commensurat with its vehicle type, ie, an mot test for a pickup or similar, a truck test for a truck type vehicle (mog etc), but as there isnt one for atractor, a basic roadworthiness test depending on the spec of the machine, this is all covered in the construction and use act,and is very complex

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

its human nature to abuse trust,

 

Trust! That's a good one!!

 

The more rural you go, the more like bandit country it becomes....

 

The pick-up I saw yesterday (so wish I got a picture!) was highly likely to be over it's laden weight just with the amount of mud that was caked on it from top to bottom. So much so that it was impossible to tell what make / model it was. Never seen the like of it...

 

Trust.....

 

Yeah, that's a good one.... :lol: