Near-new vehicles had defects
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• When a vehicle examiner inspected three tipper• vehicles belonging to Waterloovile Plant Hire, of Waterlooville, Hampshire, last February, he issued two delayed prohibition notices as well as two defect notices.
But when Mr Robert Bason, owner of the business, appeared before the South Eastern LA at Southampton to show cause under Section 69, he maintained that one of the vehicles should not have been inspected because it had been off the road for two weeks and was being prepared for its annual retesting.
The other two vehicles were almost brand new and he was astonished to learn that they had any defects.
Major-General A. J. F. Elmslie, the LA, referred to previous prohibition notices issued in 1968. He decided to curtail the licence by one vehicle for three months.