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Industry veteran censured on maintenance
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A CUMBRIAN haulier who has been in the industry for 40 years has had his licence curtailed from seven vehicles to four and he has been ordered to appoint a qualified transport manager within three months.
Carlisle-based Thomas Littleton was called before the North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe at a Lancaster disciplinary inquiry. He held a licence for seven vehicles and nine trailers, with five vehicles and five trailers in possession.
Vehicle examiner Andrew Sefton said the inspection records were incomplete, there were some gaps of up to 25 weeks; they regularly went beyond six weeks. There was no written driver defect reporting system.
He inspected two vehicles and two trailers, issuing one delayed prohibition. Over the past five years two immediate and three delayed prohibitions had been issued to Littleton's vehicles and trailers, as well as three variation notices.
Littleton said he had been involved in the haulage industry since 1964.0f his five vehicles, one was for sale and only two were running due to driver shortage. Drivers were instructed that if there were any defects they should take the vehicles to Daf Trucks, which was now maintaining them. The drivers were now using RI-IA defect books and tilling in the defect forms. Littleton said that he had obtained his CPC through grandfather rights.
Cutting the licence to four vehicles and four trailers after receiving a number of undertakings about vehicle maintenance, the Deputy TC said Littleton should not continue as his own transport manager.