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Developments in enforcement of
heavy goods vehicles
Ad Hellemons
Director TISPOL Organisation
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Enforcement of HGV:
 Difficult issue for TISPOL
 In spite of EU legislation (Regulations) considerable differences in
enforcement in the M.S.
Complex: rules complex, digital tacho fraud, dealing with foreign
drivers, many different documents.
Few experts available, due to complexity and resources required for
experts.
 Less resources the next years to come.
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What does TISPOL do at the moment?
 Truck and bus control operations
 Transport Document System (TDS)
 Master classes
 Tachoweb (expert system tacho fraud)
 Joining Eu working groups/expert committees
 Full cooperation with ECR
 Cooperation with Industry (IRU/ECR/TISPOL)
Supporting the implementation of the cross-border
enforcement Directive
Supporting the implementation of the ERRU
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Will that do for the future?
NO,
Because:
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 Less and less enforcement capacity (time) is available.
 No real political will in the M.S. to achieve harmonisation.
 There are so many ways to “escape” from the rules, that
the work that is done has only a limited effect.
 Sometimes naive assuptions about capability of
enforcement (group of wise men/new cabotage rules).
 Risk of demotivation of law enforcement officers.
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What is needed for the future?
A combination of more targeted (intelligence led) enforcement
and a better use of technology, so that the sparse human
capacity can be used in a more clever way, leaving as much of
the “dumb work” as possible for the technology.
Let the officer do what the officer can do best and let
the technology do what the technology can do best.
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Is this a completly new idea?
 Certainly not.
 Discussions about “Risk Rating systems” in the past(ERRU is
an example) to select out the “black sheep”.
 Discussions about intelligent monitoring systems (e.g. “long
distance monitioring”).
 Weigh-in-motion and analysis of registered data. REMOVE
Project.
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Why do we not succeed to implement
the right technologies?
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There is no comprehensive EU policy about use of technology for
this type of law enforcement and the Member States have
completely different views (e.g. UK/NL vs. Germany).
The actual developments in the road transport market are the
driving forces, (EU) rules lag behind, enforcement lags behind even
more. This is not the right context for clever deployment of new
technologies.
There is no political will in the member states to deal with the issue
properly. M.S. all stick to their own national legislative context.
Law enforcement is also devided.
Privacy discussions need to be solved(DEPET)
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Conclusions:
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The proper conditions for succesful deployment of law
enforcement technolgies for HGV throughout the EU are
not yet in place.
These conditions are the most basic requirement for a
succesful future enforcement policy on HGV. Such a policy
would be based on intelligence and targeted enforcement.
The approach will have to be “top-down”, meaning: first
the right political and legislative conditions and then the
technology itself. Much time and resources are wasted
now in trying to make the approach “bottom-up”.
Law enforcement will have to convince politicians that
another approach is required. If it fails to do so, effective
law enforcement will more and more become an illusion.
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Thank you for your attention
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