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Licence curtailed after operator's gross negligence
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• Three firms which each had a delayed prohibition order issued in respect of one vehicle, appeared before the deputy South Eastern LA, Mr George Mercer, at Brighton last week.
In the case of Mr Frederick Richardson, of Southbourne Road, Eastbourne, an owner-driver operator holding a licence for three vehicles, with one specified, the LA ordered a curtailment to one vehicle forthwith.
Mr Mercer said: "The vehicle concerned had been operated for about three weeks. As a result of a delayed prohibition some £300 or £400 had to be spent on repairs. It seems to be gross negligence on the part of the operator.
"However, he does appear to have taken some steps to remedy the situation."
Mr Richardson said that after the prohibition he took the vehicle off the road for a month to get repairs done. He had arranged for it to be inspected and serviced monthly.
Curtailment from two vehicles to one, from October, was ordered, in the case of Mr Merrick Gardener, of M. Gardener and Son of May Close, South Bersted, Sussex.
But Mr Mercer said Mr Gardener would not be precluded from applying for a second licence in the future, subject to further vehicle examination.
A vehicle examiner, Mr Dennis Voller, said he inspected two vehicles on a council car park half a mile from Mr Gardener's home. One was in good condition but the other had two defects, an offside headlamp which was inoperative on dip and a brake fluid leak on one wheel cylinder.
Inspection records were unsatisfactory because action taken on defects was not always recorded. There were monthly inspections but the mileage covered between some of them was too high. In one instance the mileage was 9000 between inspections and in another it was 6500.
Mr Gardener said he had now arranged for monthly inspections or inspections at 4000-mile intervals, whichever came up first.
Curtailment of one vehicle for one month, from October 1, was imposed on R. and M. Lewis of Fairways Road, Seaford, Sussex, whose business is principally in fruit haulage.
Mr Mcrcer said a delayed prohibition order had been issued for one vehicle because the inspection and maintenance system had been quite inadequate.
After examining records of the system which had now been instituted, with inspections at 2500 miles intervals and servicing and inspection every 5000 miles, he said: "It appears that what was necessary has now been put into operation."
• Subject to the one month curtailment, an application in respect of three vehicles requiring trailers was granted.