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Lentrol keeps its promises
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A Cheshire company given until the end of last year to prove it could operate properly, has succeeded in winning a full licence.
Lentrol, trading as Axmore, was seeking a new national licence for 15 vehicles based at Mill Lane, Frodsham. Last May the North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell revoked the licences held by Alan Hale and by Axmore. Disqualifying the company from holding a licence, Bell said its directors had adopted a cavalier attitude to the licensing system. (CM17-23 May 2001.1 Lentrol is the successor to two failed businesses run by the Hale family.
Vehicle examiner Cohn Cossage said that the undertakings given at the last public inquiry had been complied with. Systems and equipment were in place and the paperwork was in order.
However, a number of prohibitions suggested that the quality of the inspections was not high enough. He suggested to the company that the fitter required some assistance.
For the company, David Chant said that the company had taken on an apprentice and the fitter was to attend a Vehicle Inspectorate course.
Company secretary Sharon Hale added that six vehicles were being maintained by the manufacturers' dealers. Director Martin Hale said that they were experiencing far fewer breakdowns than previously and the drivers were a lot happier. He checked the tachograph charts before they were sent for outside analysis by the Road Haulage Association, Undertakings were given that the fitter would attend a course by the end of June, that accounts would be filed at the Traffic Area Office at the same time as Companies House for a two-year period, and that in the event of Sharon and Martin Hale being away from the business for more than three months the IC would be notified what alternative management arrangements had been made.
Bell said that she had granted the company interim authority to operate to see how matters went on. It seemed that that decision had been absolutely the right thing to do. She saw no reason why she should not grant a licence and she did so with some satisfaction.