When must you conduct periodic technical inspection of a tractor trailer subject to registration?
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Correct answer
B. Before the lapse of the deadline indicated in the registration card.
Explanation
In the photo, a tractor with a grey agricultural trailer, marked with a triangular warning plate for slow-moving vehicles and triangular reflectors, stands at a vehicle inspection station, over an inspection pit. You carry out the periodic technical inspection of an agricultural trailer that is subject to registration before the deadline given in the vehicle registration certificate - answer B.
The owner of the trailer is obliged to present it for technical inspection. For an agricultural trailer, as for an agricultural tractor and a moped, the first periodic inspection is due before 3 years have passed since the first registration, and each subsequent one before another 2 years have passed. So what counts is the deadline set for the specific trailer, not a fixed rule - "always every 2 years" (answer A) ignores the longer first period. Retention of the vehicle registration certificate by a police officer (answer C) may lead to an additional inspection, but it does not replace periodic inspections. At the station the vehicle inspector checks, among other things, the brakes, lights, reflectors, the warning plate, the coupling device and the tyres.
Legal basis: Art. 81 para. 1, 5, 7 and 11 and Art. 82 para. 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)