ickness eons ban for Scot
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COTS haulier has been led from using one of his es for a month — although court was told he had an remely serious" record of iibition orders on his des.
le Scottish deputy LA, sitin Edinburgh, decided to !nient because the haulier, :h Robertson of East ler, had been suffering ill-health. It suspended vehicle's licence for ch.
le court heard that four of ;even lorries owned by Mr ertson had had prohibition rs placed on them. Mr mond Hill, senior miner, said two of the cles had badly operating dbrakes, one had an air in the foot brake as well Dose holding-down bolts another had a broken r Robertson's ill-health responsible for the lack of ritenance. "Up till the beLing of last year, he persoy supervised the mainte2e and did a lot of it himBecause of his ill-health had to change over the ervision to part-time 3tants. But now he has a time mechanic who is very erienced," the court was eputy LA Mr James Dalsaid: "The record of protion orders is extremely 3us and normally I would e serious action, but in v of the explanation given I remove one of the vehicles 3ne month, which I regard xtremely lenient."