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slams firm's managers for 'abrogation' of duty
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A north-west London company, one of its directors and its transport manager have been held to have lost their repute because of a "serious abrogation of responsibility".
Neasden-based Leisure Notice and its transport manager John Plummeridge were called before the South Eastern 86
Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps at an Eastbourne disciplinary inquiry.
Vehicle examiner Tariochan Kang said that, since December 1999, seven immediate and seven delayed prohibitions had been issued, with a further six issued when vehicles were presented for clearance. The initial pass rate at annual test was only 50%. Vehicles had also been used which had not been specified on the licence.
Traffic examiner Alan Craig said analysis of the tachograph charts for the period September-November 2001 had shown that 15,132km had not been recorded. Many were missing and had not been returned by the company's tachograph analysis bureau. Those available revealed 49 breaches, including unexplained power interruptions. However, because of the missing charts, it was impossible to calculate whether there had been further breaches, Sylvia Lloyd, the company's sole director until a month previously, admitted that she had been in Spain a lot over the previous year, and had lithe knowledge of the company's operations over the last 12 months. She had not looked at the tachograph charts and did not know who had checked them. Plummeridge said that he had recently resigned as transport manager on this licence (and four or five others on which he was the transport manager) for personal reasons. Initially he had been employed for 20 to 30 hours a week, but his hours were reduced when a head fitter, Mr Kelly, was appointed. After an arson attack all the tachograph charts were sent to John Crook, of Jaycee's tachograph bureau. He had had no contact with Crook and left everything to Kelly.
Revoking the licence and disqualifying both the company and Lloyd for two years, the TC said that neither she nor Plummeridge had taken any steps to check up on the fitters and the tachograph analysis company. The TC added that there were no systems in place to let them identify the manifest failings that had been obvious since June 2001. No attempt appeared to have been made to ensure the company fulfilled its obligations and, as a result, the public could have been endangered.
The TC added he would be unlikely to approve Plummeridge's appointment as a transport manager on any licence for two years.