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Skip operator offers DTC assurances
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A SKIP HIRE operator who failed to understand his responsibilities as an 0-licence holder while trading under interim authority has succeeded in obtaining a substantive licence after making assurances that he was now aware of everything he needed to do.
Manchester-based Colin Cash, trading as Wasteline Skip Hire, was seeking a new one-vehicle restricted licence before the North-Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner, Patrick Mulvenna.
Vehicle examiner Andrew Mann said that during a maintenance investigation in March, an Smarked prohibition was imposed because of loose wheelnuts. The vehicle's nearside wheelnuts tightened in an anti-clockwise direction, which was unusual.
He was told the wheelnuts had been checked, and it was possible the person doing so had loosened them. Only one safety inspection record was available.
Mann agreed that apart from the S-marked prohibition, the vehicle had otherwise been in good condition. Cash said he was operating a 7.5-tonne G-registered skip wagon, but he had failed to declare a conviction for a tachograph offence in his application he hadn't thought it necessary because he was using the vehicle for private purposes at the time.
Due to the delays in getting an interim licence, the vehicle had been hired to Skip-It Skip Hire for £200 per week. That firm folded overnight, owing him money.
If the licence was granted, Cash would have a new X-registered vehicle ready to start in February. He had acquired yellow markers for the wheelnuts and sorted out a tyre firm to check wheel security.