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Laundry company must clean up its ad
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A NORTH WALES laundry and dry cleaning company has had its licence cut to allow time for its new maintenance systems to be put in place.
Rhuddlan-based Starcounty Textile Services was called before Welsh Traffic Commissioner David Dixon at a Mold disciplinary inquiry. It held a licence for four vehicles, with two in possession.
Vehicle examiner John Brown said he carried out an investigation following the issue of an S-marked prohibition at the roadside in October 2004. The fleet was maintained by outside contractors. Records for the prohibited vehicle showed that inspections were regularly carried out until February 2004: then there were three inspections by different contractors,the last being in July 2004.There was no record of any inspections being completed between then and the day the vehicle was given the prohibition order.
Records for another of Starcounty's vehicles showed it had been regularly inspected until December 2003, after which there was a gap of 14 weeks. An inspection had been carried out on the same vehicle in May 2004,but then there was a gap of 19 weeks.
Managing director Maurice Silvoni said the company's main activities were laundry and dry cleaning. He admitted it had failed considerably in maintaining its vehicles. To rectify the situation it had since employed an ex-RAF logistics expert. The company was also in the process of buying a new site at Llay and was planning to build its own workshop so it could employ a mechanic. Silvoni thought the new facilities would be available towards the end of the year.
Cutting the licence to three vehicles, the TC said the company should not be allowed to double the number of HGVs it operated until its new systems had been proven effective. He estimated this would take a number of months.