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Promises save the day
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WIDE RANGING undertakings about vehicle maintenance, driver training and the checking of tachograph records, enabled a South Yorkshire company to escape with a formal warning at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry.
Barnsley-based AA Ogley & Son. which holds a restricted licence for nine vehicles and seven trailers. had been called before North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney.
Undertakings given at a public inquiry, when an operator looks the TC in the eye and gives him what are. in effect, personal promises, carry great weight when a TC decides what action to take. Vehicle examiner Keith Craven reported that he had carried out a maintenance investigation in June following the issue of an S-marked prohibition for loose wheelnuts. He examined three vehicles and one trailer, issuing a delayed prohibition.
Vehicle maintenance was contracted out and the trailers were maintained by the company's own staff. The S-marked prohibition threw doubt on the quality of the drivers' daily walk-round checks.
Appearing for the company, David Chant said the maintenance was now contracted out; wheelnuts were checked weekly and retorqued.
The TC said that in view of the undertakings offered, and the fact that this was the company's first public inquiry, he was able to take a very lenient view. Ogley was clearly keen to put things right.