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Falling out with the VI tarnishes repute
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Cr ' A County Durham waste
disposal company, said to have been involved in a dispute with the Vehicle Inspectorate for the second time within 12 months, had Its Operator's Licence suspended for a week.
Baxketh and the associated companies TB & 150 were called before the North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Elizabeth Perrett at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. They held 0licences for eight vehicles and four vehicles respectively.
Last January, Baordosth was called to a Public Inquiry after director Patricia Allen refused to allow Vehicle Examiner Geoffrey flatters to inspect a vehicle on the company's premises, She then agreed to co-operate with the VI.
Flatters had imposed a delayed prohibition on one vehicle because of a loose wheelnut. Records showed that inspections sometimes missed their monthly schedules, and that they were not always satisfactorily completed. Mileages were not recorded on some of the drivers' defect reports, and the defects were not recorded as being remedied. In June, a vehicle was given an immediate prohibition for a defective roar stoplight. The company was di ssatisfied with his report.
Senior vehicle examiner Gary Walker said that at a subsequent meeting in May, he and flatters had attempted to explain the shortcomings in the company's systems. However, Allen and the company's transport manager Miohael Almond would not listen. When it was reiterated that a vehicle examiner aoutri examine any of the company's vehicles at any time, they became aggressive and the meeting was brought to a close.
Almond said that the examination of the vehicle given a delayed prohibition for the loose wheelnut had taken an hour or so. The company had known the vehicle examiner was coming and had gone through the vehicle beforehand. "The examiner was determined to find something wrong with the truck," he said. They had listened to what the VI said and had altered their systems immediately after the examiner's visit.
The DTC said the repute of Baxketh and Almond was tarnished as, despite previous assurances, the firm had not co-operated with the VI. She took no action against TB & 150.