It is rarely a good sign when heavier vehicles do not stop, and only whiz past when the Norwegian Road Administration has checks along the roads.
That is exactly what happened this week, at the Støkken control station on the E6 south of Oslo.
A truck train from Turkey failed to stop for inspection. But the Swedish Road Administration’s Outdoor Inspection had a patrol that came into contact with the lorry driver when he turned off and stopped a little further south, in Vestby.
Didn’t go well…
Thus the trip went back to Støkken and closer control. It did not go well for the driver from Turkey.
This is some of what we can read in the report from the Swedish Road Administration’s Daniel Alexander Hals:
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The Swedish Road Administration’s inspectors focus on the technical condition of the vehicles they stop. But not infrequently there is also talk of violations of statutory driving and rest time rules. Photo: Norwegian Road Administration
Working time of 26 hours
“Drivers were reported to the police for not stopping for checks and gross driving and rest time violations, which resulted in a total of 10 incidents reported to the police that same evening.
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The Turkish driver drove without a driver’s license, but entered this into the tachograph at the same time as he drove after the patrol to the Støkken control station.
24-hour rest where the driver was supposed to rest for a minimum of 9 hours, the driver rested for 2 hours and 8 minutes.
Daily driving time, which could be a maximum of 10 hours, the driver had a daily driving time of 19 hours and 25 minutes.
The driver’s total working time was in some cases up to 26 hours, which is limited by the regulations to a maximum of 13 hours, or 15 hours in a limited number of days.
The driver was ordered to rest on the evening in question as a result of an active driving and rest time break.”
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Do not want in traffic
In sum, these were such serious violations that the driver was fined NOK 45,000, which he accepted. He was also expelled from Norway.
– We do not want drivers who operate in this way in traffic and are very dangerous for traffic safety, concludes Daniel Alexander Hals of the Norwegian Road Administration.
(This article was first published on Broom.no)
