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Suspicious inspedion records may lead to curtailment
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A COMPANY which produced suspicious inspection records at a public inquiry faces curtailment of its licence because the records appeared to have been made following a vehicle examiner's inspection. College Freight Services (Northern Ireland), trading as FGL, has a licence for six vehicles based in Manchester. It was called before North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverly Bell at a Bolton disciplinary inquiry.
Appearing for the company, Martin Arthur said some of the inspections had been carried out at Newton Butler in Northern Ireland, where different types of records were acceptable as it was a different regime.The TC replied that if the company wanted a licence in the North-West then it had to play by the rules here.
Vehicle examiner Michael Bale said some of the inspection records produced when he visited the company were not on the proper sheets and they showed extended gaps between inspections. Commenting on inspection records produced at the public inquiry, Bale said those records were not the records that he was shown when he visited the company—they appeared to have been produced after the event.
The signature on a photocopy did not match that on a record produced at the time for the same vehicle on the same day when the same person was supposed to have inspected it.
Having looked at the records, the TC said that she did not think they had been fabricated to deceive but agreed they had been made out retrospectively.
MD Seamus McBrien said systems would be set up to ensure the vehicles were inspected every six weeks and the Manchester depot manager would be sent on a course run by the PTA, which would also be asked to come in and do an audit.
Summary
0-LICENCE DIFFERENCES This case illustrates that the authorities in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have a different approach to 0-licensing than in England, Scotland and Wales.