Shorter licence for prohibitions
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• Scottish Licensing Authority
.4 worth has cut the
cence held by Aberdeen-based Nimmo Equipment Services following maintenance problems, but plans to grant a full replacement licence to parent company Caird Environmental.
Evidence was given by the Vehicle Inspectorate that a fleet check last October resulted in seven immediate and four delayed prohibitions.
Maintenance was carried out by an outside contractor who travelled to Aberdeen from Peterhead on a regular basis. The condition of the company's yard was such that it was inevitable that the standard of maintenance would decline: one part of the yard had been knee deep in mud.
Maintenance records were not correctly completed and intervals between inspections were up to three months.
Caird group services manager Brian Williams said that when Nimmo Equipment Services was acquired there had been nothing to suggest any 0-licensing problems.
As soon as Caird became aware of the alarming results of the fleet check the maintenance contractor was changed and the period between inspections reduced to four weeks. Checks were carried out to ensure the Caird system was being complied with. The then transport manager left the company.
It was accepted that the premises were unsatisfactory, said Williams. The company had been seeking alternative premises for some time and it was hoped to move to a new site in August. A licence application had been made and advertised in the name of Caird.
Cutting the Nimmo licence so that it expires in 1994 instead of 1995, Waterworth said he felt obliged to record the fact there had been a problem. But subject to the statutory objection period Caird's licence would be granted for the full five years without conditions.