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BRIEFS 0-licence investigation
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• A disciplinary hearing against the licence held by Shropshire livestock haulier John Roberts has been adjourned while the issue of an 0-licence disc to a vehicle which appeared not to be specified on his licence is being investigated.
Roberts, who trades as John Roberts Transport, of Sherbourne Farm, Nash, near Ludlow, appeared before West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry.
Roberts holds an international licence for six vehicles and six trailers and is currently oper ating two vehicles and two trailers.
After Michael Carless, for Roberts, had said the main issues were the driver defect reporting system and a lack of a flow chart, Mervyn Pugh commented that it was a case where the paperwork was wrong but the vehicles had not attracted any prohibition notices.
Carless said Roberts was the only full-time driver and he had not had defect reports from the part-time drivers, who did very little. After Mervyn Pugh had said each part-time driver must have his own defect book, Roberts said that had now been done.
Asked whether his two vehicles had been given fresh annual tests, Roberts said he bought and sold vehicles and he was changing them all the time.
When Mervyn Pugh pointed out that the last change of vehicle recorded on the licence was in June 1996, Roberts said he had changed a vehicle recently and had been sent the licence disc. It was one of four vehicles he had purchased after Bowkers of Bridgnorth had gone out of business. Carless said the vehicle examiner had been satisfied with the condition of the vehicles in July, but Mervyn Pugh said that that did not mean they were in good condition today.
Adjourning the case for a fortnight, Mervyn Pugh said there was no record of the change of vehicle and that would have to be investigated.
It might be that it was just a muddle but it had got to be sorted out. He was not pointing the finger at anybody but something was incorrect.