Eff's licence is hit on maintenance
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• The duration of the sixtyvehicle licence held by Brierley Hill based ETF Distribution has been cut by West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh, following maintenance shortcomings blamed on a lack of organisation.
Richard Hammersley, for the company, told a Birmingham public inquiry that the main cause of complaint appeared to be the maintenance records and the lack of an inspection pit or hoist, and the company planned to install one within six weeks. Nonetheless it had to admit that it had neglected the maintenance records.
In all, 17 of the company's 55 vehicles were found to have defects of various sorts, most of which could be described as minor. Most of these were repaired within seven days.
Brierley Hill spent £250,000 on servicing its vehicles last year and the problem had been one of lack of organisation. Arrangements had now been made for routine maintenance to be undertaken by Lex Tillotson with inspections every six weeks. Planning charts had been provided and the system had been in operation for three weeks. Also, a daily drivers' defect reporting system had been introduced on a nil reporting basis.
Managing director Stewart Pegg promised that defects would be repaired before vehicles were allowed back on the road and said he would write to the company's drivers in blunt terms pointing out the company's embarrassment at appearing at the public inquiry and that its licence was on the line. Cutting the duration of the licence to expire on 31 October 1988, Mervyn Pugh said the new system had to be Oven time to work but he wanted to have a look at the situation in the not-too-distant future. The company had to understand that if its vehicles attracted prohibitions there was something wrong with its system.