Vehicle cut from licence
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II Continuing maintenance problems, and a number of convictions, have led to one vehicle being removed from the licence of Fife hauliers, W & J Collier, for a period of three months, by Scottish Licensing Authority Michael Betts. Last August concern over maintenance standards and breaches of environmental conditions led to the Cowdenbeath firm's licence being suspended for a week, the authorisation reduced from 30 vehicles and nine trailers to 20 vehicles and nine trailers, and a direction that it expire at the end of August this year instead of at the end of 1998.
DoT vehicle examiner John Daly told the Edinburgh disciplinary inquiry that since then four immediate prohibitions had been imposed on the firm's vehicles, three of which had been endorsed. This showed a significant maintenance failure, he said.
Traffic examiner Mike Reynolds said that in the same period the company and its drivers had been convicted of two tacho graph offences, four offences of using vehicles with defective tyres, two drivers' hours and records offences, and one offence of using a trailer in a dangerous condition. In addition, the company had been discovered to be using a vehicle that was not specified on the licence.
Curtailing the company's licence to 19 vehicles and nine trailers until October, Betts also made an order that the curtailed vehicle might not be used under the authority of any other operator's licence during that three month period.
He also issued the firm with a formal warning in respect of its future maintenance standards, the recording of further convictions and breaches of its licence conditions.