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Complacency leads to Continental cut
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Cy Chris iirtdaâ– .. CONTINENTAL EXPRESS Transport (CET) has had its 0-licence cut by four vehicles after VOSA investigation revealed the film had become complacent over its vehicle maintenance.
At a Cambridge public inquiry, Traffic Commissioner (TC) Richard Turtitt said vehicle defects in the temperature-controlled specialist's fleet were "clearly avoid.
a; able': as were vehicle test failures. The company, which is author_ ised for 45 lorries and 70 trailers, but which currently runs 40 and 65, must now submit a copy of a Road Haulage Association audit and evidence that transport managers Mark Ayres and Leslie Jones have attended a Driver CPC course. A VOSA site visit found a number of recurring defects in a trailer and annual vehicle test failures that should have been picked up before the vehicles were presented. Its overall annual pass rate was above the national average, but it was felt it could be better.
Company director Salvatore Turoni said the firm had allowed matters to slip, and that the investigation provided the company with -a bit of a wake-up call': Mark Ayres, transport manager and nominated CPC holder, ad
mined he was embarrassed about what the vehicle examiner saw in its workshop, and that improvements had been made and more staff employed.
Ayres added: "I wasn't close enough to see what was going on. I am closer now."
Company lawyer Jeremy Fear said an S-marked prohibition issued when a driver placed a satnay device on the windscreen was 21 months old, and that the trailer prohibitions were due to a manufacturing fault.