Greenlands' last chance
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• Monmouthshire-based Greenlands Transport escaped with a warning last week (despite nine prohibition notices in 11 months), when it appeared before South Wales Deputy Licensing Authority Gerrard Sullivan.
The hearing had twice been adjourned by LA John Mervyn Pugh. The first adjournment came in June when the company had its trailers inspected by a commercial garage, and they were certified to be in Al condition (CM 22-28 June 1989). The second came after a further maintenance investigation proved unsatisfactory (CM 28 September-4 October 1989).
For the firm, Geoffrey VVilliams said Greenlands had experienced problems with wheelnuts on trailers, and the vehicle examiner had expressed reservations about the maintenance arrangements at the company's Manson Green operating centre.
But he pointed out that there was now sufficient space in the yard to accommodate the modernised fleet, and under a maintenance agreement, inspections were to be carried out every four weeks. A torque wrench had been bought to retorque the wheelnuts at set intervals, and a drivers' daily reporting system had also been implemented, said Williams.
Sullivan warned the company: "Any failure to comply with the maintenance undertakings you have given me today means you will go through the Pearly Gates."