NSW fuel supply drying up in wake of fatal Mona Vale tanker crash NSW motorists have been urged not to panic buy petrol following a supply slow-down caused by the grounding of Cootes Transport trucks. The appeal comes as Roads Minister Duncan Gay yesterday called for a review of the national trucking accreditation scheme after a Cootes petrol tanker was involved in a horror double fatality in Mona Vale last week - prompting a thorough safety review of its fleet. The company took pulled all its trucks off the road on Saturday and withdrew from the National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation scheme for maintenance management following checks by VicRoads and NSW Roads and Maritime Service in the wake of the Mona Vale Rd disaster that revealed a litany of major faults in their trucks. The petrol tanker that crashed on Mona Vale Rd / Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied Mr Gay yesterday wrote to National Heavy Vehicle Regulator chairman Bruce Baird calling on for a national review of the scheme "I would like assurance that you intend to lead a national review of the effectiveness of the national Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme that deals with the maintenance management of trucks," Mr Gay wrote. This review would focus on the effectiveness of the scheme and the degree of assurance available that vehicles under this scheme are being appropriately maintained to ensure compliance with road safety standards. Under the national scheme, trucking companies are accredited and subject to regulations in their home state but Mr Gay said NSW was doing the heavy lifting when it came to compliance. NSW spends $70 million each year on heavy vehicle checks - about $10 more than all the other states and territories combined. NSW also had the most sophisticated and detailed truck monitoring systems in the country, he said. "It is a comprehensive approach that I look forward to the NHVR promoting and supporting across the country so that all jurisdictions pull their weight," Mr Gay wrote. Mr Gay said he would also raise the issue at the Standing Council on Transport and Infrastructure meeting next month, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss. NSW and Victoria inspectors yesterday checked 80 Cootes LPG tankers discovering another 27 major defects and grounding 15 trucks. It brings the total number of trucks checked to 461 with 85 ordered off the road. A VicRoads spokeswoman yesterday said it would continue to investigate the company, despite The decision by Cootes to pull its trucks off the road on Saturday left Shell, BP and 7-Eleven struggling to keeps supplies moving, with shortages reported at a handful of service stations in Sydney, the Blue Mountains and Central Coast yesterday. Service Station Association senior manager Colin Long said some stations had run out of particular fuel types, but the shortages should ease in the coming days. "Some have run out of E10 or ULP but they will still have 98 Octane and diesel," Mr Long said. It should start to ease at the end of the week and into next week and their trucks start to return. RMS staff inspect Cootes trucks at Wetherill Park.