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A FAILURE to comply with environmental conditions has led to a Lancashire operator losing authority to operate from one of its two depots.
John Trezise and Son was called before North Western Licensing Authority Roy Hutchings under Section 69F of the Transport Act.
The firm held a licence for 10 vehicles operated from Appleby Bridge near Wigan and five vehicles from Adlington, near Chorley. Environmental conditions banned maintenance at Adlington and stipulated that no authorised vehicles should start up or leave the premises there before 7am or at all on Sundays and Bank Holidays.
Traffic examiner Ian Webster said that after letters of complaint he saw six vehicles parked at Adlington on two occasions and seven others on four dates 111 August and September.
He interviewed Alan Trezise, a partner, who said he was not aware that the firm was doing anything wrong, as it had a licence for 15 vehicles. The owner of the site at Appley Bridge had told him to remove the vehicles there at short notice.
It cost them about !:2(X) a week to garage them at Adlington as most of the drivers lived in the Wigan area.
Trezise denied any maintenance work was carried out there, He had said that on one occasion a starter motor had gone and that had to be re
paired, so the vehicle could be moved, and on another he and his brother had changed the exhaust of a vehicle.
Michael Paterson said, for the firm, a new permanent arrangement has now been negotiated at Appley Bridge. In 24 years of operation there had been no previous complaint.
Hutchings curtailed the licence by five vehicles and removed the authority to operate from Adlington.
The licence had been granted and it was granted with conditions intended to
minimise environment effects. Those conditions Ii not been complied with.