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Company that 'could not be trusted' loses its 0-licence
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The TC was not impressed by a story that missing tacho charts were in a vehicle that had caught fire and was no longer in the country.
A BLACKBURN operator has lost its licence after just nine months because maintenance breaches led the TC to believe it could not be trusted to comply with the regulations.
Mayfair Upholstery held a restricted licence for two vehicles which was granted in June 2005.The company, which now ran one vehicle, had been called before North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell.
Vehicle examiner Neil Mitchell said that last July a maintenance investigation had been delayed because director Anwar Patel had said the vehicle was unavailable. Patel had denied that the company had received a recorded delivery letter making the appointment, but the post office subsequently confirmed that it had been signed for by the other director, Yunus Patel.
Only one inspection record was available and defects listed were not shown as rectified.There was no evidence of a maintenance forward planner. When Mitchell eventually inspected the vehicle he issued a defect notice.
He told the TC that some of the defects should have been noticed by the driver. Two inspection records produced at the hearing recorded no faults but the dates did not tie up with the forward planner that was also then produced.
Traffic examiner Raymond Taylor said the company had operated a vehicle for three years on another company's 0-licence until that was revoked. The tachograph charts showed that the drivers had no understanding of double manning, with both drivers using the same tachograph chart. The vehicle had been operated for nearly two months without a test certificate in force.
Records in vehicle fire
Yunus Patel said that he only had maintenance records for the new vehicle that they acquired in January as the insurance company had the records for the old vehicle. The old vehicle had caught fire in December with the tachograph records inside it, and was currently in the Republic of Ireland. They had been let down badly by their original maintenance contractor and were using a new garage.
Revoking the licence with effect from 12 April, the TC warned that if the company continued to operate the vehicle after that date it would be impounded.
The TC considered the breaches to be so serious that she could not trust the company to achieve compliance in the future. She consequently considered that revocation of the licence was the only appropriate order that she could make.