Police and driving authorities who set up a roadblock to stop vans and commercial vehicles driving past the Memorial Stadium in Bristol said they were ‘disappointed’ to find 80 per cent of them were driving with illegal defects.
More than half the 39 vans pulled over at random were in such bad condition they were taken off the road immediately, and in total there were only six that passed the police test with a clean bill of health. The day of action took place in Horfield on Thursday, with vans, commercial and light goods vehicles driving in the area were pulled over and checked out in the car park of the home of Bristol Rovers.
The police action was called Operation Trader, and was a partnership between traffic cops, the council’s licensing team, Trading Standards and the DVSA. All four authorities were there checking out the vehicles, and in total 39 were pulled over in one day.
