Document slip-up, says LA
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• The Western LA removed one vehicle for six weeks from the licence for seven vehicles of F. Taylor (Transport) Ltd of Yeovil when the company appeared under Section 69 in Dorchester last week and at the same time had a renewal application considered.
The LA, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, said at a public inquiry at Dorchester that if at the end of the six weeks there was nothing adverse to the company its operator's licence for seven vehicles would be renewed.
Sir John said that it was certainly not one of the worst cases he had encountered but there were certain matters which ought to be investigated at a public inquiry.
The LA said that he had the firm impression that the company's vehicles were in good condition, but there had been a bit of a slip up over the recording of information. "One of the matters I had to weigh up is whether one of the vehicles did not have an inspection for three months, or whether the document went a bit haywire," he said.
The LA said in view of the fact that the condition of the vehicles was satisfactory to the vehicle examiner he was led to the conclusion that the vehicle which, on paper, had not been inspected for three months, might well in fact have been so but not documented as such.
Referring to certain prohibitions which had been placed on the firm's vehicles, the LA said he noted that five had been issued against one vehicle. He was delighted to see that the firm had got rid of it. He was taking no action over this or over a conviction for the firm's having employed an unlicensed driver.
The curtailment in the licence was directed at the slip-up in the tight control which should be maintained over records, although he was convinced that this had not been wilful.