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Licence cut following removals firm's eighth prohibition

26th October 2006
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A REMOVALS FIRM which clocked up eight prohibitions, including six in the last year, has had its licence cut from seven vehicles to five. Offences included sending a vehicle for annual test with two wheelnuts missing.

Sheffield-based Courtney Hill, trading as AH Removal Services, had been called before NorthEastern Raffle Commissioner Tom Macartney.

Vehicle examiner Peter Vardy said he carried out a maintenance investigation in May following the issue of an S-marked prohibition at annual test, showing a serious lapse in maintenance. He examined two vehicles and issued a delayed prohibition. The initial pass rate at the annual test was only 30%, and Vardy had been surprised to find that the maintenance contractor had sent a vehicle for annual test with two whee [nuts missing.

David Chant, for HAL said the drivers had received training from a consultant engineer.The maintenance contractor had been changed and the period between inspections had been reduced from 12 to eight weeks.

Hill said he had been -shocked and disappointed" at the annual test pass rate. Asked about three drivers who had not been carrying 15 days' tachograph charts when stopped. Hill said that two were agency drivers and he had written to their employer.

After the TC said things had gone wrong which should have been spotted by a good transport manager, he was told that the current transport manager was seriously ill.TheTC said he was prepared to grant Hill dispensation to obtain a new transport manager on an undertaking that the consultant engineer would come back within six months, audit his systems and check the work of the maintenance contractor.

Macartneywas impressedwith the"open and honest" manner in which Hill had accepted responsibility for the way things had begun to slide and go wrong.

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The TO was reasonably content that things would improvebut warned that if they did not, he would have to take more serious action,


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