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Expansion thwarted by failure o listen to examiners' advice
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.NABNORMAL loads carrier in -dire"need of new hicles has had its expansion plans curbed because failed to act on advice from vehicle examiners over le past nine years.
West MidlandsTraffic Commissioner David Dixon )ok no action against the licence of lifting gear engieers Olympia Test & Crane, which authorises four ehicles and six trailers. But he was only prepared to rant one additional vehicle and trailer instead of the Am additional vehicles and trailers applied for. Vehicle examiner John Matthews said a nonastable Special Types trailer had been given an rimediate prohibition at the roadside for a brake e feet in October. A vehicle and trailer inspected uring an unannounced maintenance investigation February were satisfactory.
One vehicle and all the trailers were maintained iy the company's own staff; one trailer had gone 6 weeks between inspections and two others two nonths.The inspection records produced by the cornany's own staff were unsatisfactory and drivers were eporting defects by word of mouth.
Matthews confirmed that the situation was very imilar to that found in 2001. Director and transport manager Brian Malpass said he accepted there had been administrative problems. However, they had since appointed a full-time transport manager.
About half their work was abnormal loads, he added. Business was on the increase and they were in dire need of additional vehicles. The trailer that had not been inspected for five months had been parked up in a customer's yard.
The four-a:ded trailer given the prohibition at the roadside had a split brake drum, which could happen at any time with heavy trailers. A 9.3% second-axle overload had been caused by a crawler crane being 200m too far forward on the trailer.