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Licence cut for truck's loose wheelnuts
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LOOSE WHEELNUTS on a vehicle presented for annual test have resulted in the licence held by Appleby-based Ian Poole being cut from four vehicles and two trailers to the one vehicle in possession, plus a trailer.
Poole had been called before North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe.
Vehicle examiner Matthew Grieve said he had carried out a maintenance investigation in February when there were two vehicles and two trailers in possession. The investigation followed the issue of an S-marked prohibition for all 10 wheelnuts being loose at annual test. The vehicle was given a refusal to clear and variation notice the following day.
Inspection records were not fully completed, there was no forward planning system and the driver defect reporting system appeared ineffective. The first-time pass rate at annual test was 42.86%, compared with the national average of 65%.
For Poole, Sean Joyce said that a drivers' daily nil-defect reporting system had since been introduced. Poole's brother Barry, the driver of the vehicle prohibited at annual test, was no longer employed. Ian Poole was currently operating one vehicle, but wished to operate two in the future when his 19-year-old son joined the business. Maintenance was no longer carried out in-house and was contracted out to a commercial garage.
Poole was solely engaged on carrying material from one quarry to another on either side of the town of Shap, a round trip of about seven miles about 15 times a day. He said he checked the vehicle every night as it ran through the town, where there were schoolchildren, shops and a post office, so it had to be right.
The vehicle prohibited at annual test had its wheels changed and a tag was put on the steering wheel indicating that the wheelnuts must be checked every 50km.
Poole gave a series of undertakings relating to his maintenance arrangements.