Haulier was told to spend money
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• The managing director of an Oldbury haulage company, who was warned in June that he needed to spend money to try to avoid overloading convictions or lose the company's licence, has done as he was told but is still under observation.
Managing director Brett Gayden produced invoices for the purchase of pallet trucks and the repair of the company's own weighbridge, when West Mid. land Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh continued the disciplinary inquiry involving R Gayden & Sons.
Mervyn Pugh told in June that some vehicles had as many as 20 deliveries to make and even a new weighbridge would not solve the problem of axle overloads. He said had said he wanted to see what the company was going to do over its weighbridge and equipping its vehicles with hydraulic pallet trucks to enable drivers to adjust their loads (CM 3-9 July).
For the company, which operates 17 vehicles and four trailers, Michael Carless said that since the June hearing Gayden had complied with the commissioner's requirements.
The commissioner had also expressed concern about the company's maintenance standards, and Carless said vehicle maintenance was now contracted out to a commercial garage.
Issuing the company with a final warning, Mervyn Pugh said that it had sadly fallen a bit behind the times. It had got everything right now but if there were any more overloading convictions, or prohibition notices giving cause for concern, the licence would be in jeopardy.