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drink driving check
Karen696:
--- Quote ---i dont mind being checked but they should make it fair and check everyone, assuming that just van and truck drivers will be over the limit is a bit off
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I've seen it loads of times outside biker event (motorcycles not pedal cycles) where they have stopped every bike, gone over it with a fine tooth comb and issued tickets / rectification notices for any 'perceived' faults on the bike - as well as breath-testing.
Meanwhile cars, vans, lorries drove past with impunity.
We were stopped for over an hour and a half at the side of the road in freezing cold February weather after one rally - they had pulled more bikes than they had cops to deal with - in the end Bob got a rectification ticket for a fault that did not exist and a friend got a ticket for a number plate which had been cut down by half an inch to fit the bracket!
Sent them a copy of the bikes FULL MOT which was carried out on the following day and a nasty letter. Funnily enough they said we didn't have to send the rectification notice in after all!
The point here is about applying the law to all road users, not a minority. Mind you I would be happy enough if they started tackling 'travellers. If they can't give a permanent address, have no documents, or have outstanding fines the vehicle should be confiscated there and then (the cops have the powers) instead the cops round here leave them alone to break the law as and when they want because its just 'too much paperwork'.
OK rant over.
WishIhadaLandy:
to do with the drug comments mentioned, surely as drug taking is illegal then whatever you are going under the influence of drugs is doen illegally because you have taken that illegal substance :?
Just what i thought, i might be wrong.
woody:
--- Quote from: "Karen696" ---
--- Quote ---i dont mind being checked but they should make it fair and check everyone, assuming that just van and truck drivers will be over the limit is a bit off
--- End quote ---
I've seen it loads of times outside biker event (motorcycles not pedal cycles) where they have stopped every bike, gone over it with a fine tooth comb and issued tickets / rectification notices for any 'perceived' faults on the bike - as well as breath-testing.
Meanwhile cars, vans, lorries drove past with impunity.
We were stopped for over an hour and a half at the side of the road in freezing cold February weather after one rally - they had pulled more bikes than they had cops to deal with - in the end Bob got a rectification ticket for a fault that did not exist and a friend got a ticket for a number plate which had been cut down by half an inch to fit the bracket!
Sent them a copy of the bikes FULL MOT which was carried out on the following day and a nasty letter. Funnily enough they said we didn't have to send the rectification notice in after all!
The point here is about applying the law to all road users, not a minority. Mind you I would be happy enough if they started tackling 'travellers. If they can't give a permanent address, have no documents, or have outstanding fines the vehicle should be confiscated there and then (the cops have the powers) instead the cops round here leave them alone to break the law as and when they want because its just 'too much paperwork'.
OK rant over.
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i was working on the docks at Heysham one june
and the police had a large portacabin set up with pull in area
soon saw why, when the ferry docked and they pulled just about every bike coming back from the isle of man and did spot checks on them
great end to the TT's
Range Rover Blues:
In their defence I think it's often a response to a percieved risk. Many bikes at the TT are race bikes and as such not really legal. many others may have had accidents and be unsafe. Just because there are a lot of them does it condone breaking the law?
As for pulling up truck drivers/delivery drivers well there agian is a risk, if i worked in an office and was unfit to drive I don't have to but people who drive for a living may choose to take the risk rather than be disciplined for taking a sick day for what is a self-inflicted thing. If you have done nothing wrong then where is the harm?
Garin:
--- Quote from: "smo" ---
--- Quote from: "beast5680" ---i dont mind being checked but they should make it fair and check everyone, assuming that just van and truck drivers will be over the limit is a bit off
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Whilst you have a point, they have to target someone, and as van/lorry drivers are on the road all day, doing many miles they potentially pose a greater threat than someone doing a 5 min journey, also a 38tonne artic does a lot more damage than a 1t car!
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If a car with a drunk driver does something stupid at the side of a 44 tonne artic it is just as dangerous if not more so, to much blame is put onto truck drivers these days
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