No leniency for one-man operator
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• A Scottish operator who had been using only two of five vehicles authorized and only one of which had been used since October last year and who had received four immediate GV9s had his licence curtailed to one vehicle and the remaining vehicle suspended for three months when he appeared under Section 69 in Glasgow this week.
Mr J. F. McRobbie of Kilsyh admitted he had not carried out the undertakings of his application but said he would in future carry out regular vehicle inspection.
A vehicle examiner, Mr G. McDonald, said at a maintenance inspection in October 1970 Mr McRobbie had undertaken to send major work to an outside garage. In September 1971, however, he found work being done in the open and no records were being kept. Both the vehicles were inspected, one with nine defects and the other with 11 faults. Both were issued with immediate GV9s.
The LA, Mr A. B. Birnie, said he could not allow anyone to get away with this record. He could not, he said, afford an operator the luxury of leniency because he had only one vehicle.