{"id":136089,"date":"2025-11-15T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136089\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:37:07","slug":"quarter-of-all-trucks-tested-in-north-island-police-blitz-fail-brake-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/136089\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarter of all trucks tested in North Island police blitz fail brake test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">Authorities tested the brakes of 58 vehicles and 15 of them &#8211; 26 percent &#8211; were faulty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNobody wants a heavy motor vehicle, often weighing over 50000kg, coming towards you with defective brakes,\u201d said Senior Sergeant Lex Soepnel, from the police commercial vehicle safety team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">The police were focused on preventing crashes and not \u201cpicking up the pieces\u201d afterwards, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re asking for is simple. We have rules in place to keep all road users safe and we\u2019re asking heavy vehicle operators to meet those standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">The police issued 141 infringement notices after the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe need everyone to ensure that their vehicles are maintained to a safe and compliant standard, and that drivers are well rested and not fatigued,\u201d said Soepnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; RNZ<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities tested the brakes of 58 vehicles and 15 of them &#8211; 26 percent &#8211; were faulty. \u201cNobody&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5263,93007,82896,121,78,2514,111,43,139,529,69,1118,675,13420,765,46849,29271],"class_list":["post-136089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-all","tag-blitz","tag-brake","tag-fail","tag-in","tag-island","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-police","tag-quarter","tag-test","tag-tested","tag-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}