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Inspection before 0 licence
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• C. M. Shepherd and Sons Ltd., of Newcastle, has to wait until a fleet inspection has been carried out on its vehicles to see whether the company will be granted an operator's licence. Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern LA, said last week that an examination of the applicant company's fleet would perhaps prove more favourable to the applicant than some of the present evidence.
The LA said the company had received 10 prohibitions in 1968 and a further six in 1969. A list of 10 convictions incurred in the past five years, read out by the clerk, included two for overloading in 1967, one for a defective tyre and one for contravening drivers' hours. Mr. Hanlon asked just how far he could'go before he had to rule that the owner was not a fit and proper person to operate a haulage business.
Mr. W. F. Shepherd, in charge of the company's transport office, undertook to keep his 11 vehicles in a fit and serviceable condition; two of the GV9s, he said, issued in 1969 were put on vehicles which had just been involved in an accident. One of the vehicles had been running on both radial and cross-ply tyres but this had not been the cause of the accident.
The LA reserved his decision.