Alarming numb( of defects LA
Page 20
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
HAWICK and Jedburgh Cooperative Society of Hawick admitted two offences when it appeared on a charge under Section 69(I) at Edinburgh Licensing authority A. B. Birnie curtailed its licence from II vehicles to six immediately and curtailed a further vehicle for two months, reducing its active strength to five for a twomonth period.
Transport manager John Kerr told the court that it had cut down transport from 50 vehicles to 18, of which five were in general use under licence, with a sixth as Standby.
On June 18 it had used a standby vehicle, which was checked and found to have seven defects. In evidence Mr Kerr said that it should not have used the vehicle, except that milk deliveries were vital. They had decided that t was an emergency and UE vehicle, whose defects admitted.
Senior vehicle inspe Peter Harper said that till ture of the defects was mil to arise from use and not t which would follow a penii standing unused in a gara The Society had incre workshop staff to three claimed that maintenance much improved.
Mr Birnie said that he impressed by the trans manager but that it had admitted that the vehicle not suitable for use.
And he added, "I am ge very tired of this — I have hammering away for ten 2 but I find that the percer of defects discovered at side checks is still,alarm high."