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Warning for operator that ignored safety undertakings
Page 35
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A TIPPER operator that ignored undertakings given at a previous public inquiry, including one to introduce driver training, has escaped with a warning.
TM Ward (Darlington) was called before NorthEastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney; it holds a licence for 20 vehicles and four trailers.
At a previous public inquiry in May 2005 it undertook to conduct driver training, to conduct roller brake tests every 12 weeks and to achieve a first-time pass rate of 90% at annual test.
Vehicle examiner Geoffrey Flatters said that since the last public inquiry, an immediate prohibition had been issued at the roadside for loose wheelnuts. Though improvements had been made, the company had not adhered to the undertakings given at the previous public inquiry.
There was no evidence that driver training had been carried out; roller brake tests had been carried out on the vehicles but not on the trailers; and the initial pass rate at annual Lest. was WA, Managing (lirectorlohn Ward said that after the last public inquiry it was decided to replace some of the workshop staff. Attracting competent replacements had not been easy but the new fitters had improved matters — as was shown by a I(X)% initial pass rate at annual test so far this year.
Transport manager James Lloyd said the driver training had now taken place. The vehicles had all been fitted with wheeln LA indicators and a torque wrench was available for the litters and drivers.
He told the TC that he had misunderstood the undertaking about roller brake testing, and that since the vehicle examiner's visit, the vehicles and trailers had been regularly roller brake tested. The driver of the vehicle with the loose wheelnuts had failed to make his daily walk-round check and had been given a final written warning.