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Big spender can't build Rome in a day but wins licence increase
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A LANCASHIRE skip hire company that spent almost £500,000 on new workshop facilities and recruited an engineering manager from a Volvo main agent has had its licence suspended for four days over vehicle maintenance.
Little Hulton-based Kenny Skip Hire had been called before North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell who was considering action against its licence, as well as an application to increase its authorisation from 10 vehicles and two trailers to 15 vehicles and two trailers. This was the resumption of a hearing that had been adjourned in June (CM 22 June 2006) when the TC had said she was giving the firm a chance to show that it could comply with the law, At the resumed hearing she noted that since then its vehicles had attracted five more prohibitions. one of them immediate.
Appearing for Kenny, Gillian Crossley said there had been considerable improvements, though "Rome wasn't built in a day". The firm had recently been fined for tachograph offences committed before the last hearing; the traffic examiner had confirmed that huge strides had since been made in monitoring the tachograph records and drivers.
In future the tachograph records would be submitted to the RHA for analysis on a monthly basis, Crossley added, Vehicle examiner Graham Brock said there had been no prohibitions since his last visit in November, He felt the firm had got itself back on track, with the vehicles being inspected every six weeks.
The argument swayed Bell, who revealed that she had been considering revocation. She granted the additional vehicles.