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0-licence is cut as a 'rude awakening' to operator
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A STRING of maintenance problems have led to a County Durham operator having its licence authority cut from six trucks to four.
Shildonbased James Cant, trading as JWC Transport, had been called before the North-Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Elizabeth Perrett at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. She told him he had received a "rude awakening".
Vehicle examiner Gordon Whittaker said that in the past five years one immediate and two delayed prohibitions had been issued to Cant's vehicles, together with one refusal to clear and a variation notice. The stated inspection period of six weeks had been exceeded by one week or more on six occasions.
Many defects on the records were ones that should have been reported by drivers, Whittaker added.There was no forward planner in use and the firm had no adequate driver defect reporting system. The initial failure rate at annual test was 75%.
Cant said he had been in business since 1982. He employed one part-time driver and drove himself; his brother also drove occasionally.
Following a recent overloading conviction while carrying roof trusses he had uprated one of his vehicles. He was now aware that the rectification of defects had to be recorded.The driver defect reporting system had been changed and there was now a forward planner. The vehicles were inspected on the same day every six weeks and they were roller brake tested twice a year.
The variation notice was issued after brake pipes burst during the test.Nowwhen a vehicle was prepared for annual test it was sent to another commercial garage to be checked over before being presented for test. From now on he would he doing the job right as he did not want to be "back down here". It was not his intention to operate more than four vehicles.