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Poor standard of Scots garages
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• There has been criticism by haulage operators in Scotland of the standard of workmanship by service garages which, they allege, fail to do an efficient job of work. At a Section 178 inquiry in Edinburgh last week B. Herculeson of Leith, operating four vehicles on A Licence, was given a token penalty, curtailing the use of one vehicle for two weeks because of prohibitions issued over a period of two years.
For the company, Mr. William Henry Summerville said that 'you pay for the work but it is not being done'. In one instance a vehicle which had emerged only that day from the service garage responsible for the work had been prohibited by the Ministry inspectors. Four vehicles had been put in for complete overhaul prior to inspection yet the examiners had found defects, said Mr. Summerville.
This problem has been ventilated repeatedly in the Scottish courts over the past year. The Scottish LA, Mr. A. B. Birnie, is of the opinion that responsibility remains with the operator and cannot be passed to a service station. The difficulties of finding reliable and efficient service is admitted and countered by the point that many operators
• "The Road Traffic Act removed all vehicles under 30cwt from my control. There are many things in its favour, of course, but when one has a case like this before one it makes one wish they hadn't been removed from my control. All I hope is that the people who will now inspect these vehicles will do it as vigorously as my vehicle examiners have done it in the past."-Mr. R. R. Jackson, South Wales LA, at a Section 178 inquiry in Cardiff last week.