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Firm given a month to bid for new licence
A PARTNERSHIP was given a revocation order that had a delay of a month on implementation in order to allow it to submit a fresh application.
Appearing before the NorthWestern Traffic Commissioner, Beverley Bell, Preston, Lancashire-based Herbert Singleton Dransfield & Partners, trading as H Dransfield & Sons, heard that the revocation of its threevehicle licence was delayed for 30 days to provide an opportunity for a fresh application.
The TC had not been notified that partner Herbert Dransfield had died and that Christopher Dransfield was no longer a partner.
Evidence had been given by a vehicle examiner that one vehicle had been issued with an immediate prohibition for a defective load-sensing valve and another with an S-marked immediate prohibition for loose wheelnuts and a missing stud.
He added that there were gaps in the inspection periods of 12, 18 and 31 weeks. There was only one driver defect report for the two vehicles in operation (Licence reduction for skip-hire company', CM 28 May).
Jonathan Backhouse, for the firm, said that in the short term it was proposed that the business went ahead as a partnership between Harold, his brother, Roy. and mother Gillian, with the formation of a limited company the eventual goal.
A series of undertakings were given in relation to the company's future maintenance arrangements.
After the TC had said she was concerned that vehicles had been allowed out when she knew maintenance was overdue, Gillian Dransfield replied she had not thought that was her responsibility and had left it to her sons.
The TC said the vehicle with the missing wheelnuts and stud was "a fatality waiting to happen': Its driver, Roy Dransfield, said he was not sure whether he had carried out a walk-round check and admitted that he had not listened to his wife, Marie, the transport manager.
Marie Dransfield said that she was now fully in control and all the vehicle examiner's recommendations had been put in place. If her instructions were not followed, she would resign.