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Lack of inspections sees licence cut to one truck
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A Cheshire company that failed to have its truck regularly Inspected because it only did limited mileage has had its licence cut from two vehicles to one.
Restricted licence holder Widnes-based Can Recycling was called before the North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe at an Oldham disciplinary inquiry.
Vehicle examiner Carl Hilton said that a maintenance investigation was carried out in November following the issue of an 5-marked prohibition for a tyre worn below the legal limit. The vehicle was also subsequently issued with a delayed prohibition for excessive movement in the steering joint.
Although there was a contract for the vehicle to be inspected every 10 weeks by a commercial garage, the maintenance contractor was not being used and only one safety inspection record could be produced, which was
incorrectly completed.
There was no evidence of any other inspection having been carried out and the company had said that safety inspections were not carried out on a regular basis because of the low mileage undertaken. There was no forward planning system or driver defect reporting system in use.
The DTC commented that the company had been convicted of a tyre tread offence, of having an unsealed tachograph and of a drivers' records offence.
Director John Jackson maintained that he had been under the impression they could go 30 miles without having to use a tachograph. The vehicle only did 100 miles a week, carrying a very low weight. It had not been doing enough mileage in a year for a service. He had now arranged for the vehicle to go into the maintenance contractor every 10 weeks.
Jackson undertook to keep inspection records in the future and that a daily walk-around check would be carried out every day that the vehicle went on to the road.
Cutting the licence, the DTC said that it was a bad case even for a small operator. There had been a complete lack of any appropriate or effective maintenance system. It was almost as bad as it could possibly be in relation to maintenance and that was probably why an S-marked prohibition was issued.
However, he was prepared to allow the licence to continue as Jackson had "bothered to turn up" and had made him a number of promises, taking account of the fact these were specialised vehicles.