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Lack of finance leads to licence cut by TC
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POOR MAINTENANCE and insufficient finance led to the licence held by Stratford-uponAvon-based Quantum Haulage being cut from eight vehicles and 16 trailers to two vehicles and four trailers.
At a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry, West Midlands Traffic Commissioner Nick Jones also ruled that Roger Bissell, the director and transport manager, had lost his repute as a transport manager.
Additionally, the TC had said there appeared to be insufficient finance for eight vehicles.
Bissell answered that by saying that all he required for the next few years were three vehicles and four trailers.
Vehicle examiner David Murray said that he had examined three vehicles and four trailers and issued an immediate prohibition to a trailer. Safety inspection sheets were missing and no mileages were entered.
The system for drivers to report defects showed little use. There were no defect reports for the vehicle that Bissell drove, and the initial pass rate at annual test was just 33%.
Since January 2007 four immediate and three delayed prohibitions had been issued to the firm's vehicles and trailers.
Tachograph records revealed that one vehicle was used for three days before the S'-marked immediate prohibition had been cleared. Bissell said that the visit by the vehicle examiner had made them realise the company hadn't been operating properly. Safety inspections were now contracted to a commercial garage.
He added that the prohibited vehicle had not been used for haulage, but was on its way to have its brakes checked when it was stopped.
Bissell promised that he would go on a CPC course to bring him up to date, having obtained his CPC through grandfather rights. He accepted that eight vehicles and 16 trailers had been far too many for him to manage.
He gave a series of undertakings about the future maintenance arrangements and to get a new transport manager within 56 days.