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Poor maintenana led to vehicle cut
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• A Lancashire catering supply company's licence, which was granted in September 1997, has been reduced from four vehicles to three following problems with maintenance and Vehicle Excise Duty Burnley-based Supply Fact appeared before North Western l'raffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. Vehicle examiner Robert Stewart said he examined the two vehicles in use in July. One had not yet been specified on the licence. He issued two immediate prohibitions for brake defects. In one case it was 11 weeks since the vehicle was last inspected_ There was no driver defect report system and there was room for only three vehicles at the operating centre.
Managing director Mohammed Ghalib said the company had changed its maintenance contractor and reduced the inspection period from eight to six weeks. The company had no defect reporting system due to his ignorance. It had now introduced the Road Haulage Association driver defect system.
A conviction for using a vehicle without an excise licence must have been an oversight, said Ghalib. A vehicle said to be untaxed on 15
September had been bought wi current tax dibut they had culties in obtaining the paperv to re-tax it. It was eventually b taxed to August on 28 Septemb The company had sold vehicles and Ghalib said he no idea where the 0-licence d were. The said the d were DOT p erty and company a retrieve them,
For the c pany, Fred 1 dall said was a common story of a rest ed licence holder taking on HI without fully understanding requirements. The TC said company had side-steppec number of 0-licensing reqi ments He cut the authorisatic three vehicles.