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Haulier escapes with warning over inadequate record keeping
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A NORTHERN IRELAND operator with a depot in Scotland has escaped any formal action after promising to improve its inspection records. The Traffic Commissioner accepted there was little risk of further prohibitions.
When Co Antrim-based Ballyclare Freight Services appeared before Scottish TC Joan Aitken at an Edinburgh disciplinary inquiry she said it was her policy to call operators to public inquiry before they built up a bad record of prohibitions. The company holds a licence for four vehicles in Scotland and six trailers based at Grangemouth, Scotland.
Vehicle examiner James Reep said that since the licence was granted there had been two delayed Sprohibitions showing a serious maintenance failure for missing ISO cables.
A subsequent maintenance investigation showed the inspection records were not detailed enough. There were only two trailer inspection records, one each for two trailers.
It seemed that operations were controlled from Ballyclare, rather than Grangemouth, where there were no permanent staff. However, it turned out the company employed a traffic manager at Grangemouth, who was empowered to direct drivers to a local maintenance workshop.
In reply to Fiona Christie, for the company, Reep said two Ballyclare vehicles had recently been examined at the roadside without any problems. He agreed that it seemed the fault was not in the maintenance itself but in the way it was being recorded.
MD James Reid said the firm had based vehicles in Grangemouth as it did a lot of work for the chemical industry in the area.
The TC said she did not feel the need to take any formal action since it seemed the company was not going to attract a lot more prohibitions. The problem over the ISO cables had been resolved.