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P LEGAL BRIEFS DTC says apply again
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IN REFUSING TO grant a licence to The Farmers Dairy Co because of the admitted continual use of vehicles without an 0-licence and no valid advertisement having been made, West Midlands Deputy Traffic Commissioner Miles Dorrington has suggested the company reapply in three months' time The Huntingdon-based firm had been seeking a new restricted licence authorising the operation of six vehicles and six trailers before the DTC at a public inquiry in Birmingham.
The DTC directed that an application for a licence could be considered after three months, if it was supported by tangible evidence of outsourcing of the company's transport needs in the meantime, as well as bank statements that demonstrated the company had sufficient financial standing. Landscape & Ground Maintenance, having his 0-licence suspended for 14 days. Wheatleybased Watts had been called before Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Lester Maddrell at a Southampton disciplinary inquiry.
Watts gave the DTC a series of undertakings. These included the fact that he would retain the services of a competent administrator in order to ensure compliance with 0-licensing requirements; that any vehicle specified on the licence would be not more than four years old as at the date on which it was first specified; safety inspections will be carried out by a main dealer for the make of vehicle, pre-planned and never more than four weeks apart.
Also, that the PMI reports would he properly completed, show rectifications and be retained for at least two years; and that there would be a nil-defect daily driver reporting system, with reports showing rectification and that they would be kept for at least two years. In addition, he promised all authorised vehicles would have a rolling road brake test every six months, including at the annual vehicle test, and that the results would be recorded and kept for at least two years.
Driver fined for defective rubber A defective tyre cost Lancashire truck driver Ryan Lewis £293 in fines and costs. plus three penalty points on his driving licence, when he faced Wrexham Magistrates.
Lewis, of Eccleshill Gardens, Eccleshill, Darwen, admitted using a vehicle that had a defective tyre.
Prosecuting for Vosa, Nia Lloyd said that in June, a 7.5-tonne two-axled vehicle, which was being driven by Lewis, was stopped in a check on the A494 at Ewloe. An examination revealed that the offside front tyre had body cords exposed for a third of the tyre's circumference.
Lewis said that his only other experience of trucks had been driving in the Territorial Army, where vehicles had been regularly checked. It was his first job driving trucks outside the TA, and he assumed that checks would have been carried out. His firm had since changed the garage undertaking their vehicle maintenance following this incident.
Lewis was fined £130 and ordered to pay £163 prosecution costs.