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'Trustworthy' double wheel-loss firm escapes with warning
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A MERSEYSIDE operator has escaped with a warning after one of its trucks lost two wheels on a motorway.
Newton-le-Willows-based Incomestyle, which holds a four-vehicle licence, had been called before North-Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Elizabeth Perrett at a public inquiry in Warrington.
Vehicle examiner Alan Chan said he had carried out an unannounced maintenance investigation in March after a vehicle had lost two wheels on the M6.
The company had moved from its authorised operating centre in October 2003. Two vehicles examined were in a satisfactory condition but there were shortcomings with the paperwork. The failure rate at annual test was 43%. Since November 2001, two immediate and four delayed prohibitions had been issued to the company's vehicles. Chan told the DTC. The vehicle that lost the wheels had had two new tyres fitted the previous day, he alded.There was no record that the wheelnuts had been checked for tightness; the vehicle had covered 117km before the wheels became detached.
Vehicle examiner Peter Rimmer said he had visited the company in May and found that action had been taken to sort out the paperwork.
Incomestyle director James Hanton said he had updated the fleet. He confirmed that the lost wheels had been changed the night before, but added that the driver had been told to check them the next morning after dropping his first load.
He agreed it was lucky that nobody had been killed, but said that the drivers now checked their wheelnuts every morning under his supervision and again during the day. The firm had not applied for a new operating centre in 2003 due to an oversight on his part.
Hanton gave the DTC a series of undertakings about the company's maintenance arrangements.