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Three months' grace to prove new maintenance system works
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A SKIP HIRE FIRM must wait three months to learn what action will be taken against its licence pending a review of its maintenance standards.
Rochdale-based demolition and skip hire contractor Mayer Brothers Excavation, which holds a national licence for five vehicles, had been called before North Western Deputy 'Traffic Commissioner Patrick Mulvenna. He adjourned the hearing for three months to give the company time to prove its new maintenance systems were working.
Vehicle examiner Darren Robinson said that since February 2002 three immediate and three delayed prohibitions had been issued to the company's yehicles.The pass rate at annual test was 21.4%. During a maintenance investigation in November he examined four vehicles, issuing a delayed prohibition and four defect notices. The inspection records were not a true reflection of the condition of the vehicles and there was no written driver defect reporting system.
lie agreed that safety inspection records produced at the public inquiry showed a considerable improvement and that there was now a documented driver defect reporting system.
Appearing for the company, Ivan Coupe said it had originally operated under a restricted licence. However, it became clear that it required a national licence.A transport manager was appointed but never took up the job.
Coupe added that in November 2006 he had been approached by director Wayne Mayer for advice. It was conceded that vehicle maintenance had taken a backward step at the time of the maintenance investigation. Steps had since been taken to put matters right. including building a new workshop.
Coupe planned to become the company's transport manager and hoped to have obtained a CPC by the end of May.
The DTC said the raft of prohibitions showed that the vehicles had not been fit to be on the road. Loose wheelnuts appeared to be a problem and something should have been done about it.