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Variation granted despite poor report
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A NATIONAL meat marketing concern, Mattcsons Meats Ltd, was granted an application to vary its 0 licence in the North Western traffic area by increasing its fleet by 13 heavy goods vehicles despite a poor report from a DoE Vehicle examiner.
Mr P. G. Hayward, deputy North Western LA, was told that the company had applied to increase its
fleet by three vehicles immediately and 10 to be acquired.
However, the examiner told the deputy LA that when he called at the company's Wigan premises he found that no maintenance records were available and that facilities were extremely limited.
In favour of the application it was said that the company had 17 depots throughout Britain and that it was licensed to operate vehicles in all 11 traffic areas.
Vehicles based at Wigan had been, and would be maintained at Durham depot. Duplicate maintenance records would now be kept at Wigan and any major repairs would be undertaken by a local garage.
The reason for the application, the deputy LA was told, was to replace existing light vans with heavy refrigerated vehicles.