• Swansea-based Greatone has been warned that if it ignores
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advice about its maintenance system again its licence could be suspended or revoked.
Renewing the company's nine-vehicle licence, South Wales LA John Mervyn Pugh said that it was a matter of concern that its vehicles had again attracted prohibition notices.
For Greatone, Cyril Garbutt conceded it had not fully implemented the planned maintenance system suggested, in that duplicate letters of instruction had not been issued to drivers and the company had a tick system for drivers to report defects, rather than the daily nil system recommended.
Referring to oil leaks listed on a number of prohibition notices, Garbutt suggested that the problem was not one of leaks but of oil spread on the vehicle bodies to allow tarmac to slide off with ease.
Refusing to accept this explanation, Mervyn Pugh said: If 1 told that story at dinner, the house would be in hysterics." He pointed out that vehicle examiners were very experienced and that if the oil were just on the bed of the vehicle it would be easy to find where it was coming from.
He suggested that the inspection period of four weeks for vehicles working over rough terrain should be shortened.
Mervyn Pugh renewed the licence until the end of April 1.993 after an assurance from managing director Robert Steen that the recommended maintenance system would be implemented in full. He said that the company had fallen by the wayside because it thought it could do better — it had complicated a simple system, which history had shown worked.