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Highland hauliers aeglecting safety
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I Too many goods vehicle operators in the ;cottish Highlands are neglecting safety, he LA, Mr Alex Birnie, said in Inverness )n September 21 when he dealt with four irms called before him under Section 69.
"I'm getting rather concerned at the lumber of people I am required to see in nverness", said Mr Birnie, who presided at imilar sessions in June and July.
He said he had been hoping that, with the lumber of cases coming up, goods vehicle verators would be getting a better idea of >afety requirements.
He described as "pitiful" a vehicle inipection carried out by Mr Kevin Stewart, af the Gairloch Construction Co Ltd, who )assed a lorry as fit the same day as the lehicle examiner found 14 defects.
Mr Birnie curtailed the company's licence "rom four to three vehicles, the number it Al as actually using, and suspended the
licence for one of the remaining vehicles for four months.
Alexander Bartlett, Urray, Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, had the licence of one of his three vehicles suspended for four months after Mr Birnie heard there had been a case of overloading and one where a vehicle was prohibited for three defects, each sufficient to cause prohibition.
J.A. Robertson and Co (Fruiterers), Inverness, had their licence for eight vehicles reduced to four for two weeks when it was said that one vehicle which was immediately prohibited was taken on the road by mistake.
James Fraser and Co, Beauly, had the licence on one of their four vehicles suspended for two months because a van which had been prohibited had been passed as fit by a garage only two weeks before a large number of defects were found.