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Final chance for partners

31st August 1995, Page 18
31st August 1995
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• Hereford-based Alan Cunliffe and Joseph Lively have been warned that if any of their vehicles attract any more prohibitions for significant maintenance failure, their 12vehicle licence will be revoked and they will be disqualified from holding an 0-licence for a long period. West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh also cut the duration of their licence.

For the partners, Warren Gaskell said that since their last appearance before the LA in June there had been a satisfactory fleet inspection. The LA commented that the issue of a delayed prohibition and a number of defect notices indicated that something was still wrong.

Vehicle examiner Alan Howells said the partners had made great efforts to get things right.

Howells said he considered all five defects listed showed a significant maintenance failure. The first axle offside brake was inoperative, one wheel was cracked and five wheelnuts were loose.

The crack was so bad, and the wheelnuts were so loose, that he did not consider it could have happened in one trip to a landfill site as was being suggested. The exhaust was blowing at the manifold, the balance beam was fractured and the spring U-bolts were not tight.

Cunliffe said the vehicle had been returning from a landfill site in Gloucester. Conditions were so bad at that site they had stopped using it.

Mervyn Pugh suggested that if the vehicles were operating over rough terrain the 28-clay inspection period should be reduced but Cunliffe said he was reluctant to reduce the period between inspections because of the cost.

Mervyn Pugh said this was a matter for the partners but it did approach right the way through. Cunliffe said that they had spent £150,000 on maintenance last year. The driver of the prohibited vehicle had changed the wheel concerned; he felt there must have been a hairline crack which was not noticeable.

After Gaskell suggested three prohibition notices over five years was not a bad record, Mervyn Pugh said he could not agree. He said he was giving the partners the strongest possible warning.

There had been a total attitude problem since they had been called in to see the Traffic Area Clerk and they had not heeded the advice given.


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