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failure to keep promises
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A South Yorkshire-based company as had its licence suspended for five days after blaming the upheaval of a move of premises for failures to fulfil undertakings given at a previous public inquiry.
When AWK Plant (Rotherham) appeared before North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Elizabeth Perrett, vehicle examiner Ronald Uttley said he had carried out a maintenance investigation on the company's sole vehicle in September 2001 and had issued a notice for three defects.
Only three inspection sheets could be produced, dated December 2000, February 2001and September 2001. The examiner was told that although most of the maintenance was contracted out, some of it was carried out by the company's own staff but no records were kept. He was told that drivers did daily walk-round checks but defects were not recorded.
Though no prohibitions had been issued since a previous public inquiry in November 2000, Uttley did not feel that a number of the undertakings given had been followed. The company had also changed its operating centre and was using an unauthorised site without notifying the TC.
Uttley agreed that documents now produced showed that the vehicle had been regularly inspected every eight weeks since September.
Director Arthur Kimpton said that he had beei in business since 1947, at one time operating a many as 20 vehicles. The company's sole vehich was now used to carry its own materials for 509 of the time and used on haulage operations forth' rest.
The business was moved to Sheffield after i was asked to leave virtually overnight i December 2000 because the site was to be rede veloped. Kimpton said that he had not realised th importance of informing the Traffic Area.
Kimpton admitted that the written drive defect reporting system had "gone out of the wir dow" after the move until the vehicle examiner' visit. He said that he had a look round the lorr himself every day and gave an undertaking that would be roller brake tested at every inspectior For the company, David Chant said that th upheaval of the move had led to some of th promises given at the last public inquiry not bein kept.
Suspending the licence, the Deputy TC sal that though severely tarnished, repute had bee retained by a whisker,