Drivers told 'You're part of a team'
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Greenlands Transport of Hereford
• Because a licence held in the South Wales Traffic Area by Hereford based Greenlands Transport expires in September, LA John Mervyn Pugh decided to take no disciplinary action in the light of a number of prohibition notices and convictions.
The company holds a licence for an operating centre at Monmouth, authorising six vehicles and 13 trailers. It had been called before the LA because of three prohibition notices imposed on its vehicles and a number of convictions for drivers' hours offences.
The company agreed to send a certificate to the Traffic Area Office each month stating that tachograph charts had been checked, and outlining any discrepancies found and what action had been taken.
The firm also undertook to introduce a flow chart showing vehicles pre-booked in for regular preventive maintenance inspections and to issue drivers with duplicate books in which to make daily defect reports, including nil returns. It agreed, too, to write to its drivers in blunt terms, pointing out that they were part of a team and that if the company lost its licence they would lose their jobs.
Making no direction in view of the assurances given, the LA expressed the hope that everything would be in order when the company sought to renew its licence.