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Wrong company on 0-licence
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A SCAFFOLDING firm running an unauthorised truck has had its licence revoked from the end of March. An associate hire company has been invited to seek an interim licence because it was actually in control.
Matlock, Derbyshire-based ALS Scaffolding Services Co, with a two-vehicle restricted licence, had been called before North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell.
The company admitted it had been operating three vehicles, although it now only had two.
Traffic examiner Caleb Moore said no tachograph records were available. He was told that none were kept because the vehicles only worked 20-30km from base. Although the one 75-tonne vehicle fell within that exemption, the 18-tonne vehicle did not.
Vehicle examiner David Howard said a maintenance investigation revealed no safety inspection records, forward planner or written driver defectreporting system. There was a 50% prohibition rate and a 29% first-time pass rate at annual test.
For the company, Paul Carless Junior said a separate firm, ALS Scaffolding Hire, was being run alongside the services company, and paying some of the bills. Tacho records were now being kept in relation to both vehicles.
Contracts manager Alastair Hazle said he was carrying out the safety inspections and a garage had carried out repairs and vehicle test preparation.That company had been unsuitable so the firm had changed maintenance contractors. There was now a forward planner and defect books in each lorry. Asked why more vehicles had been used, Hazle said the company had "grown a bit out of control': The TC said it was the hire company that was insuring and operating the vehicles. It was that company that had the money, not the services company.