Rogers receives warning
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• West York
3. shire haulier
[Tarry Rogers es caped with a warning after withdrawing his bid to triple his vehicle authorisation at a disciplinary inquiry before North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority John Hampton.
Knottingley-based Rogers, who also wanted to change his operating centre, had sought to add four vehicles to his existing two-vehicle licence.
He had asked for a public inquiry after the increased authorisation was refused because of unsatisfactory maintenance and a series of convictions.
Vehicle examiner Michael Welford said that he had inspected one vehicle at five day's notice and issued it with a delayed prohibition. The second vehicle was under repair after being involved in an accident. Preventative maintenance inspections were irregular and inspection records were not being completed properly, he said.
The same shortcomings had become apparent during an investigation in July 1989.
For Rogers, Diana Wragg said that arrangements had now been made with the Freight Transport Association for the vehicles to be inspected every two months.
Rogers said he had carried out his own maintenance until July 1989, when the examiner said the facilities were inadequate. He consequently contracted the maintenance out but that arrangement proved unsatisfactory. Since then Rogers had taken over the contractor's premises; a different form of inspection sheet had been introduced and inspections were carried out at intervals of four to six weeks.
An overloading conviction arose when a driver disobeyed instructions, and another resulted from a new driver who was unfamiliar with the job. The driver involved in the tachograph offences had been warned on two previous occasions.
The unauthorised use conviction arose when a new vehicle was stopped the day after he had handed in the application to have it specified on the licence.
After Wragg formally withdrew the application for additional vehicles, Hampton said that as the licence expired at the end of June he proposed taking no action.