Scots LA tells applicant of 'priorities'
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Mary Ryan (R H Haulage & Plant Hire) of Glasgow
• THE FIRST priority of a haulier was to maintain his or her vehicles and not to satisfy customers, said Scottish LA Hugh McNamara, adjourning an application for a new six-vehicle national licence by Mary Ryan, trading as R H Haulage & Plant Hire, of Glasgow.
Evidence was given by the DoT's vehicle inspectorate of the imposition of prohibition notices, marked neglect, on Mrs Ryan's vehicles while operating under interim authority.
Mary Ryan agreed that the maintenance work had been carried out by her son, who was unskilled. She said the work was now being done by a commercial garage.
Hugh Ryan, Mrs Ryan's husband, agreed that the maintenance had been deplorable. He said that a finance company was quite satisfied and had agreed a figure of £90,000 for two new vehicles. He did not have anything in writing as yet. They were leasing the vehicles, not buying them on hire purchase.
Adjourning the hearing, the LA said that he required production of the maintenance and leasing agreements within one month. If the finance company was prepared to trust the Ryans with £90,000 of its money he would go along with it. Mr Ryan's performance had been most unsatisfactory, and the current licence had been little better if not worse. The biggest crime in haulage in his book was driving a vehicle subject to a prohibition, knowing that it was defective.