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Joint EPA blitz nails truck and dogs

Police found at least 15 defects in trucks in a safety blitz this morning

 

Police and Road and Maritime Services (RMS) inspectors found at least 15 defects during a truck safety blitz known as ‘Operation Catapult’ in the Sydney suburb of Roselands this morning.

The NSW Police Traffic and Highway Patrol Commander, assistant commissioner Michael Corboy, tells Radio 2GB that police had issued six traffic infringement notices and that two roadside drug tests had come back positive, one for marijuana and another for methamphetamine.

RMS inspectors found one driver was working with a suspended licence, one vehicle was overweight and one other was found to be both defective and to be operating with an expired registration.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) was also at the site to test for contamination among the vehicles, many of which had been shifting spoil from the WestConnex underground motorway worksite.

“We have done 68 truck and dogs inspections so far today – we found 15 defects, but the EPA has done 20 inspections and has found no considerable breaches,” Corboy told the radio station.

“We have found there is a whole range of interlocking processes around this so we try to go back and find the owners and find out who is responsible in the end so we can get those Chain of Responsibility breaches going.”

 

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