India, Nov. 6 -- TyreSafe, UK's leading tyre safety charity, has published an analysis of nearly 137,000 vans showing that a tyre advisory at MOT is a strong predictor of future dangerous defects, with the risk doubling for larger vans in the 3-3.5 tonne class. The organisation is calling on fleets to treat every advisory as a task requiring completion rather than a mere annotation on a certificate.

According to the study of DVSA MOT data, vans that received a tyre advisory were almost twice as likely to present a dangerous tyre defect at their next test. Roughly 1 in 14 vans with an advisory, or 7.0 percent, had a dangerous tyre defect at the following MOT, compared with about 1 in 28, or 3.6 percent, of those without an advisory. For v...