The Swedish Transport Agency has supervisory responsibility for vehicle inspections, but in recent years no employee has worked solely with supervision of the inspection, but investigators have had several areas of supervision. In the future, four and a half year-olds will focus on vehicle inspections.
– We have basically just started up this business from being deprioritized for some time. We are building it. As it has begun to be written a little in the media about this, it is an area that we have begun to look at a little more specifically, says Mats Nygren, investigator at the Swedish Transport Agency.
Get controls
In 2022, just over 6.1 million inspections were carried out for all types of vehicles, but in recent years, the Swedish Transport Agency has only made a few random checks.
– It has been quite sparse, but now, as I said, a priority has been made. It will probably gradually increase now, says Mats Nygren.
'Non-existent'
The state's monopoly on vehicle inspection was abolished in 2010. In an audit in 2021, the Swedish National Audit Office concluded that the Swedish Transport Agency's supervision has been almost non-existent since then. Their conclusion was that the authority had not done enough.
Have you failed in your supervisory responsibilities?
"It's all about priorities, and I can't answer whether a wrong prioritisation has been made, but it is well expressed in the Swedish National Audit Office's report how the matter has been viewed," says Mats Nygren.