IC takes up clean sheet check plea
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• A suggestion that drivers of vehicles regularly stopped in roadside checks should have 10 mething to show when no problems were found is to be taken up by the South Wales Traflc Commissioner John Mervyn pugh.
The sugg tion came during disciplinary roceedings involving Lee Robins, trading as Robins Haulage, of Abergavenny. Robins told he Commissioner that his vehicles often had to pass up to six roadside checks and he felt that operators should be given something when vehicles were found to be OK.
For Robins, Norman LloydEdwards conceded that there were some areas of maintenance that were not one hundred per cent. He said that his vehicles carried scrap metal from Ebbw Vale to Port Talbot. The terrain was rough and the problems almost exclusively involved tyres. The one vehicle given a prohibition notice had been sent to an outside contractor when Robins was ill.
Robins said that he had closely followed the recommended maintenance system since a previous public inquiry. He would not object to the authorisation on the licence being reduced from five vehicles and trailers to three vehicles and four trailers.
Mervyn Pugh said that the picture was clear. Drivers were not carrying out checks thoroughly enough and spotting defects that they should.
Mervyn Pugh cut the authorisation and directed that the licence expire at the end of June. He suggested Robins should consider joining the Freight Transport Association.