CRACKDOWN TAKES LIMOUSINES OFF THE ROAD
December 9th, 2009
CRACKDOWN TAKES LIMOUSINES OFF THE ROAD
A crackdown on limousines led to two of the vehicles being taken off the road for not complying with safety regulations and on for not being insured, after 17 limousines had been checked. During further checks, another driver was found not displaying a license plate, and not having a SVA certificate for his Chrysler 300c limousine. He told the officer that he ‘didn’t know about having any type of certificate for having a limousine, and that I thought it was just like having a normal size car’. Attitudes like this are why the government are putting their foot down on illegal limousines within the country and cracking down on getting the illegal ones off the road.
The limousine hire industry is being hit very hard by the government
You are correct, the industry has been hit very hard by the government, but the rules that they are now enforcing have been in place for quite a while and the limo hire sector was made aware that they had to comply with the new rules.