• Transport lawyer Stephen Kirkbright told a public inquiry last
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week that the boss of a company whose truck killed six people is "constantly striving for perfection".
Representing Skipton-based Fewston Transport, Kirkbright urged the Licensing Authority to put aside public outrage over the tragedy in deciding what action to take against Fewston's licence.
Kirkbright said it could be seen Fewston's managing director Tony Eyers was not a rogue operator because this was the only recorded conviction against the company.
But North Eastern LA Keith Waterworth heard that the tipper involved in the accident was untaxed at the time; that since a previous public inquiry five immediate prohibitions had been im-posed on the company's vehicles and that six of the company's vehicles The public was were reoutraged by the possessed Sowerby Bridge in March truck tragedy.
this year.
C Giving evidence to the LA during the Fewston hearings, Halifax MP Alice Mahon claimed that an unpublished Department of Transport report shows that dangerous trucks were "almost reaching epidemic proportions".
According to the DOT, Mahon is referring to statistics which are set to be collected from the police's accident report, or stats 19 form.
The DOT says it will consult the police on an addition to the form which would allow officers to fill in whether operators whose vehicles are involved in accidents have an 0-licence.