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• Stoke-on-Trentbased DSH Freight Services escaped with a warning when it appeared at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry for the second time in four months.
The company, of Mobberley, near Than, was severely warned in March after being fined £8,000 by the Cheadle, Staffs magistrates for drivers hours and tachograph offences and the unauthorised use of vehicles.
Transport manager, Shaun Hughes, had been fined £2,000 after being convicted of aiding and abetting hours and tachograph offences. (CM 1420 March).
West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh said he was most con cerned about apparent maintenance problems, particularly following the warning given on the last occasion.
For the company, Andrew Fletcher said there had only been one prohibition notice, all the other matters being defect notices. The prohibition, for three items, had been endorsed as showing a significant maintenance failure but the vehicle examiner had conceded that the first two items—a loose mudwing and an air leak—might not have been present when ver made his daily die company maintained ti were due to accident The third item related t sive free play in a ball joii Hughes said that inspected the ball joint tion on 13 March and that the free play in the j, not e at th The was on nil work driver the n that morni After Mervyn Pt4 described it as all ver pointing, Hughes said ti had happened was uni The driver had reported I age to the mudwing phone and had said du opinion he thought the n was all right.
Mervyn Pugh commet the driver should har instructed to go to a g have the vehicle check Instead, Hughes had reli a driver who was not a m Issuing the company final warning, Mervyn P. that it had had a very el history. This was its las and he did not want to I before him again. "Beli me," he told Hughes, "it warning."
This was its last chance and he did not want to see DSH before him again.