LA reduces licence
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AN OPERATOR'S failure to notify of any convictions recorded agai date of conviction was a breach licence.
This warning was sounded by Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority Alex Brand, when D and T Campbell (Meigle) appeared at disciplinary proceedings in Perth. The Company held a licence for seven vehicles and five trailers in possession, with two vehicles and two trailers to be acquired. It was admitted that it had failed to notify the LA of two convictions, one for overloading and one for using an unplated vehicle.
Evidence was given by a senior vehicle examiner that nine prohibitions had been placed on the company's vehicles and that it had received two warning letters.
Although driver defect reports were kept in the cab they were rarely used as the drivers tended to report defects verbally.
The vehicles were inspected monthly irespective of mileage. The problem was not so much that inspections were not taking place, but they were not being carried out in accordance with the testers manual.
Mr D. Campbell, a director, said the family had been in haulage since 1927 and the company employed 12 people. He the Scottish Licensing Authority nst it within three weeks of the of a condition of its operator's had never been told that the vehicles should be inspected on a mileage basis, but he did not think that it was important. Mr Brand commented that mileage was all important.
Mr Campbell said the overloading conviction arose while carrying potatoes. He took the full blame for the plating offence; he had instructed a driver to take out a trailer and had not checked that he had taken the right one.
Mr Brand removed two vehicles and two trailers from the licence.