Fewer vehicles and final warning on maintenance
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• The licence held by Willenhall-based Slf Transport & Repairs has been cut from five vehicles and three trailers to three vehicles and three trailers following maintenance problems. West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh also rejected the company's application for six additional vehicles and directed that the renewal of its licence be considered at a further public inquiry.
Ile warned that if he is not satisfied that all the company's vehicles are in Al condition at that time it will be unlikely to get a licence. Mervyn Pugh told director Ivan Farnell that he was giving him a final warning. If any more prohibitions are imposed indicating a significant maintenance failure, the company's licence will be revoked unless there is a reasonable explanation and he will make a disqualification order.
For the company, Michael Carless said it was currently operating seven vehicles. Interim authority had been granted for additional vehicles following the takeover of the business of Roy Baker, who had shared the yard and whose maintenance had previously been handled by Slf.
Farnell said that of two recent prohibitions endorsed '5", one resulted from a driver failing to report brake and tyre defects: the driver concerned was sacked the following morning. The other prohibition was imposed for defects caused by accident damage. The accident had occurred that morning and the vehicle had been on its way back to the depot for repairs.
The company's vehicles were not dangerous, said Farnell. One out of 10 wheelnuts loose was not, in his opinion, dangerous.
Farnell added that after the vehicle examiner had checked the vehicles all the defects found had been put right—Mervyn Pugh told him that they should not have been there in the first place. The company's fitters should have picked them up.