Old firm clears way for new
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• The licence for seven vehicles and trailers, held by West Bromwich-based JDT Shipping, was suspended for three weeks by West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh at a Birminghan disciplinary inquiry An application for a change of operating centre was also considered.
For JDT, Paul Carless said that a maintenance investigation by a vehicle examiner had been satisfactory and the only prohibition issued had not been endorsed as showing a significant maintenance failure. However, at present no vehicles were in operation due to a catalogue of mishaps. One vehicle had suf
fered a major mechanical breakdown. The vehicle given the prohibition notice was collected by low-loader. It subsequently fell off and was severely damaged. The third vehicle in possession was involved in an accident and seriously damaged.
In the short term, it was proposed to put only one vehicle back on the road and that would undergo an annual test first.
The TC said that according to the examiner, the prohibited vehicle's defects might have been spotted if the driver had done his daily inspection properly.
Carless conceded that the vehicles were owned by Wiclegreen and leased to JDT and both companies had the same directorship. He said that the system had been set up for tax purposes. Widegreen now intended to submit a licence application.
Granting the change of operating centre, but suspending the licence, Mervyn Pugh said that would allow an application for a licence in the name of Widegreen to be lodged and for that company to seek interim authority to operate.