CHARLES BURKE IRS Engineering Rhondda Valley Owner-driver and truck dealer
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Burke favours a licensing system for all garages that service and maintain CVs. As well as promoting high standards, he believes this would close a loophole which allows cowboy operators to blame their maintenance contractors when hauled up before a Traffic Commissioner for faulty vehicles.
"I used to be a lorry maintenance contractor,' he says, and I've seen cases where an operator goes to court and blames the garage, yet there is no legal requirement for the garage to be represented."
What about scrapping a law? No problem Burke would stop the planned introduction of the 56mph speed limit for light CVs. "It's going to lead to a lot more accidents as motorists try to get past these vehicles," he warns.