15 Apr 2021

High rates of failure in tests of truck handbrake - report

From Morning Report, 7:26 am on 15 April 2021

Tests on truck handbrakes have found high rates of failure, and concluded that routine vehicle inspections are ineffective.

The tests were triggered by three people being killed in the last four years when a handbrake - found in at least 55,000 heavy vehicles - failed.

Phil Pennington is looking into this.