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Peru: Lidercon to continue safety & emissions inspections in Lima

Living in Peru
Israel J. Ruiz

After almost 20 years of not having safety and emissions inspections in Peru, in September 2007 many applauded the establishment of a company that would handle them in Lima.

Unfortunately, the organization of Lidercon - the company in charge of handling inspections - and how the inspections were being carried out were not up to the standards of the Municipality of Lima and all operations were brought to a halt just six months after they had begun.

The Municipality of Lima canceled Lidercon's contract and affirmed inspections would no longer be handled by the Spanish company.

After a six-month legal dispute, Lidercon has announced that their inspection sites will reopen their doors to motorists in Lima, who will have to begin taking their vehicles to them beginning Wednesday August 13.

All private vehicles that have a license plate number ending in 6 will have to be taken to inspection sites throughout August.

In the case of public transport vehicles, all those having a license plate number ending in the number 1 or 5 will also have to be taken in for inspections.

It was announced that the Municipality of Lima is no longer overseeing inspections but that the country's Ministry of Transportation is to be in charge of regulating and supervising them in Lima and throughout Peru.

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# Thomas says :
7 August, 2008 [ 11:41 ]

What is the point of this when the police do nothing to enfoce this?  What a waste of money.

# Martin says :
7 August, 2008 [ 12:21 ]

Does anyone know when inspection is scheduled for cars that have 'placas' that end with the number 4? Thanks!

# Dave says :
7 August, 2008 [ 12:39 ]

Oh well I was saving my bride money for someting else.

# mericorps says :
7 August, 2008 [ 15:32 ]

Martin,

The contract with Lidercon was cancelled and the law is currently not in effect. Lidercon is being pissy about it becuase they want their illegal and worthless contract to continue.

I would love to see serious regulation implemented and enforced, but the illegal monopoly contract with the municipality and the corrupt inspections were nothing more than a joke played on the people by crooked businessmen and politicians.

# jb says :
7 August, 2008 [ 21:39 ]

From the very begining, there have been soooo many dark hands (manos oscuras) working behind the scenes to kill the safety and emmissions testing.  Starting with the transportation gremios. 

# AS says :
8 August, 2008 [ 11:20 ]

Mericops,
Maybe you could explain us why the contract was illegal?True it's a monopoly- but Lidercon won a contract to serve Lima Metropilitana(which took tens of millions of dollars in investments- which is set to recover oer long term)- and as ruling stated municipality didn't have the right to cancel the contract...Maybe the problem with them is that they actually do their job correctly, and don't take bribes(which used to happen util suspension at the begining of 90s). Then sr. Castaneda had too much pressure from gremios(mafia) because 75% of public transp. vehicles couldn't pass- and 20% had to be taken off the road immediately.
There could be other companies doing ispections too- but that's a job of the state to promote transparency and competitive services. I'm glad at least something is done to revise the state of the museum of vehicles that daily runs on the streets of Lima.