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F. CASE TWO
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Undertakings met by West Yorks firm
TOM MACARTNEY, the North Eastern Traffic Commissioner opted to take no action against the licence held by a West Yorkshire haulage firm. He has allowed it to continue to operate until the end of the year without a qualified transport manager.
Halifax-based Jack Hillas Sons, with a fleet of five vehicles, had been called before the TC at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry.
Director Mark Hillas said that at a previous public inquiry, the TC had requested five undertakings. One was to achieve a 100% pass rate at annual test.
That had been hard, hut it had achieved it. A new workshop had been built and the firm now had a daily drivers' defect reporting system. Hillas had been asked to have roller brake tests every safety inspection, but his maintenance contractor said it would only do it every alternate inspection.
The company's two mechanics had NVO Level 3.
Hillas' daughter was taking a CPC course with the RHA, and was to sit the CPC examination in September. Another employee was waiting for his CPC results after resitting the exam twice.
The trouble was that it could take 12 months to get them.
The TC said the concern was that the company had been at previous public inquiries in February 2005 and May 200'7. In May 2007, it was given four months' grace to obtain a new qualified transport manager.
Hillas said he could go to the back of CM and get one for £500, but he didn't want to go down that road. He wanted the man he was employing, and who knew the job, to pass the exam.