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Firm warned over using workshop to house livestock
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AN ISLE OF ANGLESEY firm of farmers and livestock hauliers which used its workshop to house livestock in the winter escaped with a warning after the WelshTraffic Commissioner accepted it had taken steps to sort out its maintenance problems.
Pentraeth-based William Morris Williams & Partners, trading as WM&EP Williams & Son, had been called before TC David Dixon at a Hint disciplinary inquiry It holds a licence for five vehicles and three trailers.
Vehicle examiner David Rowlands said that in August he had examined three vehicles and a trailer, issuing one immediate and two delayed prohibitions.
Agreed safety inspection intervals were not being followed; the driver defect reporting system was not being used; and the maintenance facilities were unsatisfactory.There was no pit and the building was not available in the winter as livestock were kept in it.
He was unaware that the same facilities had been used for 40 years and said things seemed to have gone downhill since April 2002. However, he agreed that the firm's annual test pass rate was good. For the firm, James Backhouse said maintenance was now being contracted out and a written driver defect reporting system was in use. The vehicles and trailers were all being inspected every six weeks.
The TC said that if the firm was going to run trucks it had to do so regardless of other pressures. But he did not feel he had to take any action as Williams was well aware of what had gone wrong and had taken steps to put matters right.