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Hams given van warning
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• David Evans, managing director of Nottingham-based B Harris and Sons (Haulage) "volunteered himself for the guardroom" by ignoring a warning letter about the periods between inspections of the company's vehicles and allowing a transit van to get into an appalling state, said Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Compton Boyd, when the company appeared at disciplinary proceedings last week.
Boyd said that in May 1987 a fleet check had led to the issue of one immediate and two delayed prohibitions. The company was subsequently sent a warning letter suggesting that the period between inspections he cut.
Evidence was given by vehicle examiner Paul Orange that he had imposed an immediate prohibition on a transit van during a follow-up examination in August, and that three attempts had to be made before the prohibition was cleared. He said the company's inspection records showed periods of inspection of between eight and 18 weeks, and the periods were becoming greater and greater.
However, the company's three large vehicles had all passed their annual test first time and there were no faults on two vehicles that he had examined on 5 January.
Evans said that they now had a flow chart showing the dates when the vehicles were due for inspection and those dates were shortly to be put on a computer by the commercial garage undertaking the maintenance.
Boyd said he could not understand why the company had done nothing between August and now. Evans said he had been very remiss and had no excuse.
Boyd said he was taking no action other than to record a warning because five vehicles had been inspected relatively recently without fault. Evans had honestly admitted his ommissions and Boyd said that he felt that Evans had been a bit naive for an operator of many years standing.