North East DLA investigates DCE
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• Dewsbury Civil Engineering has appeared at disciplinary proceedings before North East Deputy LA Brian Homer following a fatal accident and the use of unauthorised operating centres.
For the company, Clive Cook said it had a contract with British Gas that required vehicles to be on emergency standby overnight at Grimsby and Scunthorpe. They were returned to headquarters at Batley for maintenance.
Vehicle examiner John Brewitt had visited the company's Scunthorpe depot as part of a maintenance investigation following a fatal accident and issued a delayed prohibition notice.
He said that the firm's drivers were not professionals and had little regard for safety; managers were only concerned with the contract.
Company secretary Gerard McGrath said that drivers had not been reporting defects. The firm had engaged the services of the Freight Transport Association to carry out safety inspections at Grimsby and Scunthorpe. The company was also spending 218,000 on a rolling road brake tester_ Horner, however, severely reprimanded the company, saying that if the situation had been allowed to continue there could have been further serious accidents.
And he directed that a full maintenance investigation be carried out before its licence expired in October.