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Perfed pass rate avoids action against company's 0-licence
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A MERSEYSIDE skip hire company has had its 0-licence saved by an unblemished pass rate at annual test and an undertaking to attend an operators' training seminar.
Moreton, Wirral-based Loyns Skip Hire had been called before the North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell at a Stockport disciplinary inquiry following an unsatisfactory maintenance investigation.
The TC said the issue was that the company had failed to comply with assurances given about its vehicle maintenance standards. Despite those assurances they were here again.
For the company, Fred Randall said it had purchased a business owned by David Loyns, who had no connection at all with the present company. Ten vehicles had been inspected since the licence was granted with only three delayed prohibitions being issued, one of which was endorsed as not maintenance related. Safety inspections had been missed on three occasions as the company had relied too heavily on its maintenance contractor and the contractor had now been changed. The company had an enviable 100% first-time pass rate at annual test.
The TC accepted that the company had clearly put things right but asked how she could be sure they would continue to follow the rules.
Director Michael Jones replied that he had learned there was only one way and that was to do it properly.
The TC said that she had once been told by a skip operator that you could not make money in Liverpool unless you ran 'bent'. Jones disagreed. He gave the TC an undertaking to attend an operators' seminar by the end of July.
Issuing the company with a formal warning, the TC warned that if a further maintenance investigation proved unsatisfactory it had better make some contingency plans.