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• Maintenance problems have led to the international licence held by E Jackson (Chatburn) being renewed with a warning by North Western Licensing Authority Martin Albu.
The Clitheroe, Lancashirebased company succeeded in its bid to increase the authorisation from 12 vehicles and 12 trailers to 15 vehicles and 19 trailers.
Vehicle examiner I lenry
Kokocinski said he had inspected five vehicles and five trailers, issuing one itnmediate and two delayed prohibitions. Most of the vehicles showed signs of preparation and recent maintenance work. The inspection records lacked detail and a number were false.
Since a warning letter in October 1993 there had been four delayed and two immediate prohibitions issued, 18 prohibitions having been issued in the last five years.
Managing director Alan Jackson said that in the last two years the company had acquired a new site at the Salthill Industrial Estate, Clitheroe, with improved facilities. The foreman fitter was in the habit of using sheets of paper whilst inspecting the vehicles and then compiling the inspection records later.
The inspection periods had been reduced from six to four weeks. The inspections had not been as intense as they should have been in the past and that problem had been rectified. Older vehicles which had created problems had been replaced.
It was not the intention to increase the fleet, the increase in authorisation was purely as a margin.
Asked about a number of axle overloading convictions, Jackson said the problem was down to two drivers who had now left.
Albu said he was satisfied that steps appeared to have been taken to remedy the situation.