No more formal warnings
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• Once the spotlight is on an operator, it is not switched off until the operator is getting everything right, North Western Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth told Oldhambased Stephen Flowers at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. Flowers, trading as Si-Tec with a national licence for three vehicles, appeared before the TC because of concern over his maintenance record.
Vehicle examiner Keith Craven said that since October 1996, one delayed and six immediate prohibitions had been issued to Flower's vehicles. Three of the prohibitions had been issued since Flowers was given a formal warning at a public inquiry in September 1997 when the authorisation was increased from one to three vehicles.
An inspection record for a vehicle given a prohibition for a worn drag link showed it had been repaired 12 weeks previous
ly, so the repair had not been carried out properly. Flowers said all the maintenance and repair work was contracted OUL, lie agreed to write to them, pointing out their responsibilities and the fact that his licence, and therefore their jobs, were in jeopardy.
Suspending one vehicle from the licence for one month, and issuing a final warning, the IC said the time for formal warnings had passed.