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Bloody overload leads to licence cut
A TRUCK collecting from an abattoir was so overloaded that animal waste was dripping on the road when Vosa stopped it.
As a result of this and poor maintenance arrangements, the operator's licence authority has been cut by a third.
Hollander Hyams, with a sixvehicle restricted licence based at Wrexham, had been called before Welsh Deputy Traffic Commissioner Lester Maddrell. It collects raw skins and hides from abattoirs.
Vehicle examiner David Aitken said he had carried out a maintenance investigation in April following the issue of an S-marked prohibition to an overloaded vehicle, the curtain of which was torn and had skins dangling out with blood and mucus dripping on to the road surface. Hollander Hyams contracted out its vehicle maintenance.
Aitken examined three vehicles, issuing one immediate and one delayed prohibition. No maintenance records were available, no regular inspections were carried out and no driver defect reporting system was in place.
The vehicles were dirty and unkempt, and the test certificate of one in use when checked had expired the previous day. Over the past five years, one delayed and six immediate prohibitions had been issued, with a roadside prohibition rate of 83%. Four of the prohibitions since 2006 were S-marked. Detailing the systems put in place since the maintenance investigation, director Darren Feld said the firm was making "every effort" to ensure the vehicles were properly maintained. Hollander Hymns worked in a dirty and salty environment, making it difficult to keep the vehicles clean and tidy. Feld added that it now had a smaller, more manageable, fleet of three and there had been no problems since the end of May.
The Deputy TC said the vehicles were constantly changing and were pretty old, to which Feld replied that that was the nature of the industry with vehicles working in a corrosive environment. He gave a series of undertakings in regard to future maintenance arrangements.
Cutting the licence to four vehicles, the DTC said there had been a "galloping breach" of the undertaking to have proper maintenance arrangements, but noted that action had been taken to put matters right.