Seven days to back up claims
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Inverclyde Trans • Bus operator was given seven days to produce documents to back up claims that a vehicle examiner exaggerated the severity of defects listed on prohibition notices. Director Andrew Wilson claimed that prohibitions placed on a number of the company's vehicles were subsequently lifted without any work having been done to them.
Scottish Deputy Traffic Commissioner Ramsay Dalgety QC adjourned consideration of disciplinary action, and of the company's application to renew its 20-vehicle licence, for three weeks. He said he had to be satisfied that the company was adequately funded and that the people in charge were professionally competent. There was also the question of prohibitions issued and failures to fulfil undertakings about record keeping, the frequency of inspections and maintenance.
George Lynn, Glasgow operations manager of the Vehicle Inspectorate, said that since the company had been granted a licence for 12 months only at a public inquiry in March 1990, seven immediate prohibitions (four for neglect) and five delayed prohibitions had been imposed. Five prohibition variation notices had been issued.
Wilson had said he did not recall receiving a letter requesting the production of financial evidence and Dalgety told him that on the next hearing he would want to see a set of management accounts, documentation showing the employment of a professionally competent transport manager and photocopies of the certificates of fitness for all the company's vehicles.