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A N a l l e ge d l y c o r ru p ttruckie tester is behind as e r i ou s r o r t i n w h i chhundreds of drivers weregiven fraudulently issuedheavy vehicle licences.

About 650 truck driverswill now be re-tested after

allegations a Linfox em-ployee signed dodgy certifi-cates required to get a Vic-torian truck licence.

Police have launched aninvestigation and VicRoads

is inquiring if any truckdriverswitha boguslicenceh a v e b e e n i n v o l v e d i nserious accidents.

The Herald Sun believest h e s c h e m e t o o k p l a c ewhen the former employeew a s w o r k i n g a s a n a c -credited tester at Linfoxs

Laverton-based truck test-ing facility, The AngleseaComplex, one of severalproviders accredited by

VicRoads to do heavy ve-hicle licence testing.

It is believed the man metwould-be drivers at a secretlocation and signed paper-

work saying they had com-pleted testing and trainingfor cash. That certificatewasthen taken to VicRoads,which issueda truck licence.

The man has since beensacked over the scandal,which is believedto haveop-erated at least five years.

Truckies who got their li-cence through the man andrefuse re-testing will losetheir licence.

VicRoadsCEOGary Liddlesaid Linfox has been askedwhy The Anglesea Complexshould not be suspended.

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Were not saying that all

the drivers to be re-testedhave not gone through thetesting, Mr Liddle said.

However, we are askingthem to sit a re-test to en-surethereis nodoubt abouttheir entitlement to hold aheavy vehicle licence.

W e c annot al l ow anytruck drivers who have notgone through the proper li-cence processes to drive onour roads.

Transport and Roads Min-ister Terry Mulder said thatwhen hebecame awareof thescandal a few weeks ago heasked VicRoads to identifywhich licences might besuspect, have them flaggedto police, arrange for re-testing andreviewaccreditedprovider agreements.

The information pro-vided to VicRoads indicates

this situation is anutter dis-grace, Mr Mulder said.

We spend millions of dol-lars of taxpayers moneyevery year on road safety,have bipartisan supportacross Parliament and thishas all been undermined bythis situation.

Linfox spokesman GaryMax said the company re-ported the allegations to

VicRoads as soon as it be-came aware of them and im-

me d i atel y s tr e ng the ne dinternal governance systems.

We believe that no falseendorsements have beenissued to Linfox drivers.

He said safety was thecompanys top priority.

Vict oria Poli ce spoke s-woman Creina OGradycon-firmed police were invest-i g a t i n g t h e a l l e g e dfraudulent issuing of trucklicenceendorsements. Thisis an ongoing investigation

andno further commentwillbe made, she said.

T h e f o r m e r e m p l oy e ecould not be contacted bythe Herald Sun.

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