Firm gets one more chance
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• North Eastern Traffic Comm issioner Keith Waterworth has given a Doncaster firm 28 days to prove that it has more than £12,000 on deposit, or it will lose its licence.
George and Lefty Marsh, trading as Retford Waste of Harworth, Doncaster, hold a licence for three vehicles. They appeared before the commissioner at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry.
Department of Transport vehicle examiner Roger Page said that he examined two vehicles at the roadside in July, issuing two immediate prohibitions. Many of the defects were obvious and clearance of one of the prohibitions was later refused.
The inspection records were unsatisfactory and showed the inspection period agreed at a previous public inquiry was not being adhered to. There was no test history for one vehicle in the years 1993 and 1995, yet there was evidence of the vehicle being used during that time, said Page.
Following criticism of the driver defect reporting system, George Marsh said that in future he would personally check the vehicles himself.
Two of them had been replaced and he now had a contract with a second commercial garage to ensure that inspections were carried out on time. He was unable to explain the lack of test history in two years for one vehicle.
Suspending one vehicle for a month, Waterworth said that he was prepared to give the firm a final chance to get things right. But if the company appeared at a further public inquiry he would tike an extremely harsh line.