in David Symons, trading as Symons Coaches of Wishaw, got
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a stiff warning from Scottish Traffic Coinmissioner Hugh McNamara last week over maintenance vehicles.
Symons holds a licence authorising five vehicles. George McCallum of the Vehicle Inspectorate, said that a vehicle presented for annual test in July had been given an immediate prohibition endorsed "neglect" for five serious defects. There had also been a letter of complaint about one of Symons' vehicles, and during a maintenance investigation in August a second vehicle had been given an immediate prohibition marked "neglect". In the examiner's opinion, the defects on that vehicle were of long standing.
Symons gave evidence that he had joined the Freight Transport Association and had entered a contract for the I4-TA to inspect this vehicles twice a year. He felt that he now had a suitable mechanic but admit. ted that some of the distances between inspections were high. McNamara told him that the vehicles needed had to be presented for inspection more frequently when distances were high. Symons could not expect the mechanic to do his job if he did not do his own.
• North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Frederick Whalley has slammed Cleveland County Council's demands for a public inquir! on banning buses from two Hartlepool roads as "irresponsible". Whalley has refused to impose a traffic regulation condition to ban the buses, and says that if was within his power to force the company to pay for the public inquiry, he would do so. Whalley concluded that the requested ban on the operation of buses along Mu!grave Row and Duke Street had been motivated largely by politic considerations arising from pressure from residents who did not want a bus sei vice to run along their roaus.