Licence is renewed as offences reduce
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• RCL Haulage was given a warning about what North East ern Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth described as a "small dribble of prohibitions and convictions" when the company appeared al its third public inquiry in just over two years.
However, the TC decided to renew the Dewsbury-based company's licence for 25 vehicles and 25 trailers.
DOT vehicle examiner Mark Millard said that since the last public inquiry four prohibitions had been issued in roadside checks and there had been four refusals to clear prohibitions— clearance of one prohibition was refused twice.
Millard said he had examined five vehicles and two trailers in July, issuing an immediate prohibition to a vehicle for defective stop lamps. He added that the condition of the vehicles was satisfactory and the vast majority of the vehicles were now on contract hire which included a full mainte nance package.
He agreed that the frequency of prohibitions was reducing, and there had been a vast improvement in attitude, maintenance standards and vehicle condition.
Transport manager Christopher Remmers said that drivers who were found not to have reported defects lost half their weekly bonus; since December 1995 the company's vehicles had been stopped in 31 roadside checks without any prohibitions being issued.
For the company, Gary Hodgson said that it was very embarrassed to be before the commissioner again.
Waterworth said the company had clearly listened to what had been said on previous occasions.