Fair wear and tear
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• Companies' maintenance is often not at fault if tyres working in quarries are damaged, ruled a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry when Mangan Contractors (Rugby) appeared before West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh. The company operates six vehicles on quarry work and prohibition notices recorded against the company's vehicles show considerable damage to tyres. An entire consignment of tyres had been repossessed by the supplier, there being a suggestion that the remoulding had not been carried out correctly. After it was said that preventative maintenance inspections were carried out on the vehicles at four-week intervals, Mervyn Pugh said the company might find this ought to be reduced. Managing director Eamon Mangan said the company carries out daily tyre and wheelnut checks. Cutting the duration of the licence to expire at the end of the year, instead of May 1994, Mervyn Pugh said what worried him was that two prohibition notices had been issued after the company had been given advice by vehicle examiners.