'No stock' three garages tell operator
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A PETERHEAD grain merchant had his 0 licence suspended for one month bY the Scottish deputy last week after admitting that one of his vehicles had been used with a defective handbrake.
For the company, Walter Findlay Ltd, it was stated that the vehicle had been taken to three different garages in an attempt to get a new handbrake cable.
The managing director of the firm, Mr Ian Robertson, said that a new maintenance system was in operation and he pointed out that it had not been intended to use the lorry for a load after the fractured cable had been discovered.
The deputy LA took no action in two other cases heard at the same hearing. The first concerned two vehicles belonging to Bent B. Christofferson of Peterhead.
A vehicle examiner told the court defects found on two tippers were attributable to the type of quarry work on which the vehicles were involved. He agreed that a vehicle on this kind of work could go out alright one day and return damaged the next.
The second case concerned William Walker of Aberdeen. He had been called before the deputy LA because records were not being kept satisfactorily. He told the deputy LA that he had to stop the wages of his drivers to impress on them the need to keep records. The deputy LA took no action but warned that a repeat of the offence might produce different results.