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Cocktail of offences leads to a two-month curtailment
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UNREPORTED OFFENCES, maintenance problems and missing tachograph charts have led to a scaffolding firm losing two trucks from its six-vehicle licence for two months.
Traffic examiner John Hassett told South Eastern & Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps of 11 convictions incurred by Purley-based Ace Scaffolding since May 2001.
These included five overloading offences, two of using unauthorised vehicles, two of permitting the use of those vehicles, one of having no excise licence and one of permitting a vehicle to be used without insurance. Tachograph records revealed that 2.757km were unaccounted for.
Vehicle examiner Terry Egan said that five immediate and six delayed prohibition notices, one marked 'S' for a serious maintenance problem, had been imposed on the company's vehicles: two variation notices had been issued. Safety inspection records were not properly completed and the annual test pass rate was poor.
Ace director Graham Shean said the overloading convictions related to three-tonne vehicles; the problem had been addressed by using bigger vehicles. He had been unaware of the need to take vehicles not in use off the licence or to specify replacement vehicles. The maintenance problems were probably due to his mechanic "not being up to scratch".
Asked if he checked the tachograph charts, Shean did not reply. He was unable to explain the missing charts. In reaching his decision the TC took account of assurances given by Shean that there would be no recurrence of the past problems.