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TC 'minded to revoke licence' but waits for all the evidence
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AN OPERATOR'S 0-licence hangs in the balance while the Traffic Commissioner awaits a further report from a vehicle examiner to assess the firm's maintenance regime.
West Bromwich-based Mohammed Yaqoob has been warned he could still lose his licence even if the further visit by a vehicle examiner proves satisfactory.
Yaqoob, trading as Asia Yaqoob Halal Meat Co, had been called before the West Midland Traffic Commissioner David Dixon.
His two-vehicle licence had been granted at public inquiry in October 2001. In August 2003 the licence was curtailed to one vehicle for four weeks because of maintenance problems. Yaqoob undertook to introduce a driver defect-reporting system and to have a forward planner.
The TC said maintenance was still an issue, as was a driver's failure to produce tacho charts and a conviction for the employment of an unqualified driver.
Vehicle examiner Leslie Lowndes said the vehicle examined during a maintenance investigation in November was satisfactory. Inspection periods varied between five and 14 weeks. Yaqoob told him one inspection sheet had been stolen when a vehicle was broken into. The only driver defect report was dated the previous day and Yaqoob had said he had difficulty reading and writing English.
It was said there was no evidence that a delayed prohibition issued in November had been cleared before the vehicle was presented for annual test in May, although Yaqoob claimed he could produce the clearance certificate.
Yaqoob said he had been unaware the driver involved in the conviction required a Class 2 licence at the time. He had been using a daily defect book, but had not shown this to the vehicle examiner.
Reserving his decision pending a further visit by the vehicle examiner. the TC said it was a bad picture. He was minded to revoke the licence, but there was still some evidence missing.