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• What was described by Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Compton Boyd as a "quite appalling maintenance record" has led to the revocation of the licence held by Rickmansworth-based Jack Byne, trading as Jack Byne Haulage.
Byne had applied to change his operating centre and increase the authorisation on the licence from one to four vehicles.
DOT vehicle examiner Christipher flarbodd said that Byne was operating from an unauthorised operating centre. Prohibitions issued indicated that three vehicles were being operated.
There were no maintenance records and, it appeared, no proper system of regular preventative maintenance.
Byne had found difficulty in getting the prohibitions lifted and a number of variation notices had been issued. Brake defects figured regularly.
One vehicle had to be presented for annual test three times before it passed.
Brigadier Boyd said that it was a sorry story. Byne had been operating vehicles that were in an appalling condition without authority, and from an operating centre he had no authority for.
Revoking the licence, Brigadier Boyd said it was a saga of disaster. There had been a 100% failure rate at annual test this year: he could not accept inexperience as an excuse.