Warning for brake faults
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• Vehicles oper ated by a Sheffield parcels (wrier and maintained by an authorised ministry testing station were found to have severe braking defects.
DOT vehicle examiner Anthony Fielding told a Leeds disciplinary hearing that three vehicles run by Colin Crossland, trading as CRC Express, were given immediate prohibitions for severe brake defects that could not have been more serious.
The vehicles were on contract hire from Hemmingway & Son, said Fielding, and, as the inspections were up to date, Hemming-way had to bear the major responsibility. He added that Hemmingway was authorised by the Ministry to carry out Class 4 and Class 7 MoT tests.
He found it disappointing that not all the vehicles were brake tested when inspected by Hemmingway, which had a warning letter in September over the condition of one of its own vehicles.
For Crossland, Chris Charles
worth said the inspection period was being reduced from six to four weeks and an independent audit would be carried out every quarter to check that the work was satisfactory.
North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth commented that Hemmingway appeared to feel the problem was the time Crossland allowed it to have the vehicles, and Crossland said it had now been agreed that vehicles should be booked in for three days instead of two.
Taking no action, other than to warn Crossland of the need to improve his standards, Waterworth said that VI would be keeping an eye on him.