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• West Midlands Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh has cut
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the duration of the 14vehicle PSV 0-licence owned by Sealandair (Coaching) of West Bromwich.
The company appeared at disciplinary proceedings on 17 March following a series of prohibition notices imposed on its vehicles.
For Sealandair, Michael Carless said that last October, at the time of an unsatisfactory fleet check, the day-to-day running had been left to the company's transport manager. The job had not been done properly and the person concerned had subsequently resigned.
Managing director John Burns had since taken control, and a firm maintenance system was in operation so that 10 of the 11 current vehicles passed their annual tests at the first attempt.
Mervyn Pugh said there was a disgraceful list of defects, most of which should have been picked up by the company's drivers.
Agreeing that it was a disgusting record, Burns said that the defects had been picked up but there had been no action by the mechanics. He had also discovered that the mechanics had been doing personal work in the garage and that they had been replaced.
Burns agreed to have the vehicles inspected every two weeks, to write a letter to the company's drivers pointing out their responsibilities, and that vehicles would not go back on the road until reported defects had been rectified.
Cutting the licence term so that it now expires in September, Mervyn Pugh warned that if the company's vehicles suffered any further defects indicating neglect it could mean the end of Sealandair.