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Ten prohibitions for new firm in just eight months
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A Walsall company
whose maintenance standards were so poor that it received seven immediate and three delayed prohibitions in its first eight months of operation has lost its Operator's Licence.
In addition to revoking the licence held by Brownhills-based City Supplies, West Midlands Deputy Traffic Commissioner Roger Seymour disqualified the sale director and nominated transport manager Gail Cornish from holding or obtaining an 0-licence for two years.
Seymour said it was an appalling prohibition record over a very short period.
The company failed to appear at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry and the DIG said that he had refused an offer to surrender the licencefor six vehicles and 12 trailers.
Vehicle examiner Nigel Hopwood said the company had an Initial failure rate at annual test of 55%, compared with the national average of 28%. He described one vehicle as being in a visibly poor state, with part of the front bumper bar missing.
Only four inspection records could be produced for one vehicle and three for
another. There was no forward planning system in place and there was no written driver defect reporting system.
Scott Craddock, who claimed to be the transport manager, had said that he carried out the maintenance himself in an open yard in which there was no hard standing where vehicles could safely be jacked up.
The majority of the defects listed on the prohibitions concerned brakes, steering and suspension and the DIG remarked that they ought to have been picked up at the preventative maintenance inspections Seymour concluded that he believed Craddock was Ms Cornish's former husband.
Making the disqualification order, he said: 'As far as Ms Cornish is concerned, she is the person responsible for this licence. I find that because of her conduct in relation to that licence, and as the nominated transport operator. she has lost her good repute as a transport manager."
So far as Craddock was concerned. the DTC said he would be called to a further public inquiry to show why he should not forfeit his good repute.