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Extra trucks granted with warning
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AN OPERATOR has been granted additional vehicles on his licence — but with a fortnal warning to improve his maintenance standards which included a record of brake defects.
Denbigh-based Geraint Evans had been called before Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon at a Flint disciplinary inquiry where the TC was also considering an application to increase the licence from six vehicles and four trailers to 10 vehicles and four trailers.
Vehicle examiner Roger Byrom said that over the past five years one immediate and six delayed prohibitions had been issued. Byrom said that from documents produced during his visit in August he was certain that the driver defect reporting system was not being implemented properly. Most of the prohibitions related to brake defects.
Vanessa Hughes. for Evans, said that a vehicle involved in an accident — it went straight across a roundabout into some trees — was brand new. The accident was caused by driver error; there was no evidence that the brakes had been applied.
Since a warning letter in September 2000 there been no brake related prohibitions apart from when the driver had forgotten to connect the line.The TC conunented that this was an odd thin a driver to do as he was putting his life at risk.The d involved in the accident had also forgotten to cot the suzie line, and Evans said it had been hat educate drivers about the dangers. However,an ai in Commercial Motor had had a considerable imp