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Shopfitter's maintenance not fit for purpose
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A SHOPFITTING company has had its licence suspended for a week after a vehicle examiner uncovered maintenance problems during an inspection.
T Knox Shopfitters, Stockport, must also comply with a condition attached to the licence, which bans the business from operating any vehicle above 7.5 tonnes until one of its directors has taken an 0-licence compliance course.
The firm, which holds a onevehicle restricted licence, had been called before North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell, because of concern over its vehicle maintenance. The TC said she had received a report from a vehicle examiner that had identified problems.
Director Stuart Knox revealed that the company's vehicle rarely got used, doing some 6,000 miles a year.
The TC said that companies such as this got into difficulties because they didn't see themselves as primarily operating goods vehicles. However, they had to reach the same standards as operators that ran vehicles for a living. The company's difficulty was that it did not need to have a qualified transport manager. Accepting the company had nc been adhering to the cone( procedures, Knox said the firr now had a contract with commercial garage, and that th vehicle went in for regular checks Asked about a conviction fc using the vehicle without an annul test certificate, Knox said it ha been "a stupid oversight': The vehicle had failed its anmu test for a defective speed limit( and had been used for a fe' months when out of test. H believed that the company wq now doing everything to compl with what was required.