One-year licence with extra vehicles
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• A renewal for one year only was granted by North Eastern LA Keith _ Waterworth to Billingham, Cleveland-based Keith Taylor, trading as Taylors Transport Services.
However, the LA was prepared to increase the authorisation on the licence from two vehicles and three trailers to four vehicles and five trailers, but he required an undertaking from Taylor that only three vehicles would be used at any one time.
Taylor told a Leeds disciplinary inquiry he had always maintained the vehicles himself and, when required, he had the help of his father who was also a haulage contractor. He had never had a prohibition notice or a conviction relating to the condition of his vehicles or overloading.
The records did not always show inspections at the stated interval of four weeks as he had sometimes got side-tracked and had not made out the paperwork. There were no inspection sheets for the trailers. There were no driver defect reports for the time he had been driving as he had felt it a waste of time to report defects to himself.
He had not declared convictions sustained as a Waterworth: driver in his took a charitable application view of case.
renewal form as he had thought the question related to prison sentences and serious offences. He agreed that he had a conviction for speeding in an HGV after his LGV driving licence had been suspended for a day in June 1993.
Taylor gave an assurance that the driver defect reporting system he had now introduced would be maintained. He said that he was using RHA inspection forms for the vehicles and FTA trailer inspection forms.
In view of the lack of prohibitions, Waterworth said he took the charitable view that Taylor was putting some effort into operating roadworthy vehicles. His blinds-pot was in the paperwork. Until Taylor could show that his new system was operating effectively, he would be restricted to three vehicles.