Less than 10% of trucks going through Delta are safe: police

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DELTA (NEWS1130) – There may be a good reason you might feel nervous driving past a semi or dump truck.

A focused commercial truck inspection in Delta last week found less than 10 per cent of trucks on our roads are safe. Despite that, police don’t want you to be worried while you’re on the road.

Sergeant Ciaran Feenan says they did a visual inspection of 429 trucks and only 37 passed. They checked things like brakes, tires, lights, load security, driver licensing, and fatigue.

In BC, he says Delta has the highest ratio of commercial vehicles on the road. “It’s generally what we expected but we do want people to know that is if a focused inspection. There are thousands of vehicles traveling on our roads every day and it’s focusing on the ones that shouldn’t be out there.”

Louise Yako with the BC Trucking Association maintains safety is a priority for them. “We are doing what we think we can and should do in order to improve safety on the road. So… this is a good reminder that there are things that should be focused on every day.”

She adds there is a requirement for truck drivers to conduct daily inspections before hitting the road.

This was Delta’s seventh annual blitz. Feenan says inspectors do them all across the province year-round. More than 200 trucks had obvious violations; 184 have been taken out of service and three were impounded. One driver was unlicenced.

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