Suspended for a no-go limiter
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Pembrokeshire owner-driver Morris Jones had his Operators Licence suspended for a week after his tractive unit was found to have its speed limiter disconnected.
South Wales Traffic Commissioner David Dixon was told that the vehicle had been issued with a prohibition showing a significant maintenance failure. Vehicle examiner Neil Thomas said that a check of Jones' tachograph records showed the vehicle had often been driven at more than 85km/h.
Admitting that the speed limiter had been out of action for five weeks after his vehicle had run over a road cone, Jones was unable to explain why he had not had it fixed. Thomas said that Jones had no planned maintenance system. The drivers defect book was not being used and a lot of defects were being found during the sixweekly inspections.
Jones' vehicle had also attracted a prohibition for an air leak from the load sensing valve, and a trailer had been spotted with defective nearside and offside service brakes.
Jones, who was a semi-skilled fitter, had allowed a maintenance contract with a commercial garage to lapse and was carrying out the work himself Suspending the licence, Dixon warned Jones that if there was any repetition of these problems his licence would probably be revoked.