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Record lapse leads to licence cut
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A CHESHIRE OPERATOR who gave up keeping maintenance records "years ago" has had his twovehicle licence cut to one until the end of the year.
Altrincham -based John Quinn, trading as JP Quinn Contractors, appeared before North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Patrick Mulvenna at a Leeds
Maintenance records are not mere bureaucracy they enable an operator to prove that he is regularly inspecting and maintaining his vehicles; that drivers are reporting defects; and that when they do so the defects are remedied. disciplinary inquiry. Vehicle examiner David Drabble said that in April he examined two vehicles, issuing one immediate prohibition for a brake defect and one delayed prohibition for two steering defects. One vehicle produced for prohibition clearance was given a variation notice for insufficient brake efficiency. There were no maintenance records: Quinn said he had ceased to keep records some years ago.
Quinn and his son blamed the S-marked prohibition on shoddy workmanship by a commercial garage, which had replaced the kingpins but left the steering arm loose. John Quinn Jnr said the variation notice had been issued because they had relined the brakes and they had not had time to bed in.
His father produced the inspection sheets and driver defect reporting books that had been issued.
The DTC said that maintenance records were an operator's insurance policy. Curtailing the licence. he said he was satisfied with the corrective measures.