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Operator 'on probation' has until end of April to prove compliance
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A COMPANY THAT continued to operate vehicles following the liquidation of two predecessor companies by using another company's licence has been given until the end of April to show it can comply with the law.
Bury, Lancs-based Swinnerton Environmental was seeking a new three-vehicle restricted licence. Last October North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell granted the company interim authority to start operation, warning that in effect she was putting the company on probation". She said she would ask Vosa to crawl all over the vehicles and records and she wanted to see annual accounts to make sure this was not a company that would go under again. Director Christopher Swinnerton had previously told the TC that they did not know they could not operate under a licence held by MVP Spares. They were currently using Woodend Municipal Services for their day-to-day business (CM 19 October 2006).
The TC said she had a report from a vehicle examiner stating that the maintenance arrangements were satisfactory. However, a traffic examiner had a number of concerns. He had reported that the company was not having its tachograph records analysed; one vehicle had been used without a test certificate in force; a tachograph was not recording properly; there was the apparent use of unauthorised operating centres; and there was a question over exactly who was operating a number of vehicles.
For the company, it was said there were serious problems with Woodend operating from the same premises. Two of the vehicles on the interim licence had been hired from Woodend but the relationship with Woodend would be terminated at the end of next week, Extending the interim authority for a further 28 days, the TC pointed out that the traffic examiner was continuing to look at the role Woodend was playing in all of this.