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Authority cut as undertakings negleded
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A SCOTTISH OPERATOR has had its licence authority cut following maintenance problems and a failure to comply with an undertaking that its directors would go on an eight-hour course.
Recycled Packaging (Scotland) of Glasgow must operate with two vehicles instead of three for three weeks.The licence was granted in February 2005, with directors Stanley and Paul Frazher undertaking to complete eight hours' study on road haulage-related subjects within six months. Vehicle examiner George Courtney said that between July 2005 and February 2006, six delayed prohibitions, a variation notice and an 'S'-marked immediate prohibition had been issued to the company's vehicles.
A vehicle inspected in August 2005 was in a satisfactory condition, but the stated inspection period had been exceeded, there was insufficient forward planning and the driver defect-report books were not being used. The Frazhers said the company had its own maintenance facilities, and major repairs were carried out by Ian Walker Commercials (IWC). All the vehicles had passed their annual test. In future, IWC would inspect the vehicles every six weeks.
Scottish TC Joan Aitken said there had been deficiencies in the maintenance systems, but they were not the worst she had seen. A new licence with only three vehicles should not be attracting this level of prohibitions, she continued, but the company appeared to have taken steps to improve the maintenance arrangements. She took a serious view of the failure to comply with the undertaking.