EDMONTON- Just 30 per cent of the vehicles officials pulled over during a three-day commercial vehicle inspection blitz passed the test, according to Edmonton police.
Members of the Edmonton Police Service Commercial Vehicle Inspection Detail (CVID), along with agencies across Alberta, held the three-day Joint Forces Check from Tuesday to Thursday.
During that time, officials pulled over and inspected 275 vehicles, and nearly half of them were taken out of service.
“Whether it’s a case of complacency on the part of a driver that uses the same vehicle every day so he doesn’t bother to check, it’s hard to say,” Sergeant Kerry Bates said about why so many vehicles were found with safety infractions.
The following stats were provided by EPS:
Many of the problems occurred with smaller, mid-size vehicles rather than semis, Bates said.
Calgary fared better during a recent inspection blitz there, where Bates says the portion of commercial vehicles taken out of service was 10 per cent lower.
With files from The Canadian Press.
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