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A Lancashire haulier has effectively had four vehicles suspended from his licence until they have passed fresh annual tests.
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The North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell decided to take no action other than to issue a formal warning against Alfred Whiting. trading as AC Whiting Haulage of Colne, after he gave an undertaking not to operate the four vehicles until they had passed their tests. Whiting, who holds a licence for seven vehicles and seven trailers, was given a final warning by the then TC Keith Waterworth in April 1998.
Vehicle examiner Philip Harrison said Whiting was engaged in distributing beds and upholstery for Sweet Dreams of Burnley. At a public inquiry in April 1998 Whiting had undertaken that the period between inspections would be five weeks and that roller brake tests would be carried out four times a year.
Harrison said he had carried out a maintenance investigation in June following the issue of an immediate S-marked prohibition In Lanarkshire last April. He found problems with the maintenance system, including a lack of forward planning and no evidence of the three-month roller brake tests.
Saying he was not over-optimistic about the future, Harrison said there had been unsatisfactory features going back to 1993. For Whiting. James Backhouse said he had used a local contractor out of convenience but had now changed to a firm In Skipton. The previous maintenance records were not worth the paper they were written on, he added.
Whiting said he had been an operator for 28 years and had only recently become concerned about his maintenance contractor.
Conceding that he had let the roller brake tests slip, Whiting said that was entirely his own fault and agreed that he had been lackadaisical over the paperwork.
After Bell had said that she felt Whiting "needed a rocket behind him ', Backhouse said that to an extent the rocket had already been fired.
Whiting gave the IC a number of undertakings relating to maintenance, promising that he or his wife would take the CPC exam within nine months.