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Warning for failure to carry out brake tests undertaking
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A SKIP OPERATOR that failed to comply with a four-year-old undertaking to have regular brake tests has escaped with a warning at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry.
Vehicle examiner Gareth Dodd said Bradford-based Associated Waste Management (AWM) had ignored an undertaking given at a public inquiry in November 2003 that roller brake tests would be carried out four times a year. Some of the prohibitions it was given related to cuts in tyres and defective bulbs.
While increasing the licence authorisation from 18 vehicles and four trailers to 30 vehicles and seven trailers, North Eastern TCTom Macartney warned AWM, trading as Easy Skips, that its maintenance record had to improve or he would take action against its licence.
For the company. Andrew Richards said it worked at the gruelling end of the haulage industry and it was inevitable that there would be problems. Every vehicle had had two roller brake tests since February.'The company had acquired its own roller brake tester, which was to be installed in new maintenance premises at Hipperholme, West Yorks. Roller brake tests would be carried out at every safety inspection.
Director John Brooksbank said the business had been growing but the firm failed to realise it needed to put staff in to ensure proper systems were in place. That had now been put right. He did not think the roller brake testing had lapsed, it had just not done as many [tests] as it had promised.
Joint transport manager Peter Clarke said some of the roller brake tests that had been carried out had not been recorded.
The TC said he was not sympathetic when told the company was at the gruelling end of the industry and problems were inevitable. Operators had to take steps to solve the problems, even though it cost money.