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Vehicles granted, but TC issues warning
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A SCOTTISH operator, granted authority for an additional six vehicles has, at the same time, been warned about its poor maintenance standards.
Perth-based Mills Contractors had applied to Scottish Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken to increase its licence from 10 vehicles and two trailers to 16 vehicles and two trailers.
In warning the company, the TC also suspended the LGV driving entitlement of a driver who was involved in a wheel-loss incident for a period of two weeks.
Vehicle examiner Neil McPherson said that on Monday 20 August, two wheels detached from a vehicle when it was being drivenontheA9dual-carriageway, with one of the wheels crossing onto the other carriageway. A third wheel was found to have loose nuts and it is likely that it too would have detached.
The wheels were changed by the company's tyre contractor on the preceding Saturday and torqued. Retorqueing was required and a notice was given to the driver, Nicholas Webster, on that Monday morning.
When he examined the hub and wheels, he detected corrosion.
McPherson believed that if the driver's daily walk-round check been done properly, it would have prevented the wheel-loss incident.
Webster admitted that he had failed to do his walk-round check that Monday morning. He agreed that he had a notice from the company telling him of the wheel changes.
He also said that he did check the wheels at the quarry and found one set loose, which he tightened.
For the company, it was said it had procedures in place when wheels were changed, including a system of alerting drivers of the necessity to retorque.
Since the incident, further training had been undertaken.
The TC said the consequence of the wheel-loss incident was that the firm had been prevented from expanding for some seven months because the variation application had been held up.