Owner-driver loses vehicle for 14 days
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• When a partner in a company changed his vehicle he said he had relied on certain assurances given him by the previous owner that the vehicle was in good condition. But almost immediately Mr R. A. Vurge. a partner in Four Provinces Plant Hire of Newport, Mon, was stopped at a road side check and given a delayed GV9.
Mr Vurge, who appeared before the South Wales LA, Mr R. R. Jackson, to show cause, said that in April 1973 he bought a Commer tipper in place of an articulated vehicle which at that time was being maintained by a Newport garage. He was not satisfied with the service so when he changed his vehicle he changed his contract of maintenance as well.
The GV9 was issued on May 24, just one month after he bought the vehicle. "There were three defects, these were corrected and I took it to the testing station the following day and they found a number of defects. These were attended too and the GV9 was removed on May 30," said Mr Vurge.
Subsequently, Mr Vurge made alternative arrangements for maintenance and another garage now carried out monthly inspections and kept records. He told the LA he was a coal haulier who had a regular contract and towed the vehicle himself. "It is my only means of a livelihood
and if my licence is curtailed I will be out of a job,he said.
But his licence was suspended for 14 days from October 22. The LA advised Mr Vurge that he was not very impressed with what he had said in court.