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Partners banned for showing 'total disregard' for system
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Hours and speeding convictions were not reported to the Traffic Area Office.
A SERIES OF prohibitions, together with hours and speeding offences and a failure to report convictions to the Traffic Area Office, has led to the loss of a West Midland operator's licence. In addition its two partners have been indefinitely disqualified from holding or obtaining an 0-licence.
Traffic Commissioner David Dixon said that Jonathan and John Growcott, trading as Jon R Growcott ransport of Kingswinford, had shown a total disregard for the 0-licensing system and road safety. The partners, who held a licence authorising two vehicles, had been called before the It at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry Immediate and delayed Vehicle examiner John Matthews said that over the past live years four immediate and six delayed prohibitions had been issued to Growcon's vehicles and trailers.
Two of the prohibitions were for missing mudwing flaps, which the driver had removed as they were being damaged by the artic's semitrailer. The firm, which had been operating as a limited company for some time, had no licence authority to operate trailers.
It had also moved the operating centre to Brierley Hill and then to Dudley without authority.
In reply to the TC. Matthews said damage to mudwing flaps was a common problem and the solution could be to change the design of the wing. He added that the roadside prohibition rate of 67% was not getting any better. The prohibitions in 2003 for brake defects were more seriousthere had also been two prohibitions for defective speed limiters.
Traffic examiner Peter Insley said an artic loaded with scrap, and driven by Jonathan Growcott, had been stopped in a check at Doxey. When asked to produce his tachograph records Growcott produced one chart from the tachograph head, saving the others were back at the yard.When told that a prohibition would be issued until they were produced. Growcott produced the required charts.
An examination of those charts showed that the speed limiter had not been restricting the vehicle to its legal maximum. In addition,Growcon had exceeded 41/2 hours' driving without taking the required break on four occasions.
On inspection of the vehicle and trailer it was seen that the trailer identity number on the test certificate disc did not match the number on the plating certificate. Growcott admitted that the trailer's test had expired.When it was suggested that the disc was being displayed with intent to deceive, he had replied: "No comment."
Risley noted that the trailer test certificate had expired in April 2002.
The TC said that Growcott was subsequently prosecuted for the hours offences and using a trailer with no valid test certificate. He had been fined a total of £2,100 but the TAO had not been notified of those convictions. is