Five vehicles suspended at Cambridge
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• One A-licensed vehicle and four B-licensed vehicles belonging to F. Wright, of Ramsey, were suspended for one month by the Eastern deputy LA, Mr. G. Kidner, at a Section 178 inquiry in Cambridge last week. He also ordered an immediate fleet inspection.
Mr. Kidner said: "Over the past two years Mr. Wright has had a bad record."
The inquiry followed a series of GV95 issued since August 1967, he said, and culminating at a fleet inspection in April this year when another 12 prohibitions were issued. four delayed and eight immediate.
Mr. D. K. Hibbins, the transport manager, told the deputy LA that there were four vehicles operated on A licence and 20 on various B licences.
Explaining that two vehicles were at present being prepared for plating and testing, he said that one of these should have been plated already but a delay had occurred when the IVloT centre at Swansea had somehow lost the papers.
Mr. Hibbins said the reason for the poor maintenance was the continual difficulty in finding fitters. "It is almost impossible to get good fitters at the moment, or at any other time," he commented.
In reply to Mr, T. M. Sills, representing the firm, he said a full-time fitter was employed together with another fitter, electrician and welder employed on a part-time basis. He was still looking for another full-time fitter. The deputy LA asked if he had advertised and he said he had not as he would get to hear if one was looking for a job.
Mr. Hibbins said a new maintenance system, using the RHA standard forms, had recently been instituted and a new four-bay, two-pit workshop had just been opened. He said he felt his "house was now in order".