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Haulier lacked inspection records
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A Leeds disciplinary inquiry heard how a
• restricted licence holder had operated his one vehicle for five years without realising that he had to keep inspection records.
Neil Shawcross, trading as S.S6S Roofing Services, of Appley Bridge, near Wigan, who held a licence for three vehicles, had been called before the North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell.
Vehicle examiner Paul Harrison said that during a maintenance investigation in October no inspection records were available and there was no driver defect reporting system in use. Additionally there was no contract with the current maintenance provider.
Producing current inspection records, Shawcross' father
Stephen said that he had been stopped at least 20 times over the five years and nobody had ever mentioned maintenance sheets. He had all the records of the work done to the
vehicle. He pointed out that the vehicle examiner's visit was the first he had ever had from the Vehicle Inspectorate.
"I drive the vehicle myself," said Shawcross. "I don't want to kill myself or anyone else." He added that he had kept the vehicle to the standard that he thought should do but accepted that he had been naive.
Shawcross said that with it being an old vehicle it was the first one that would be stopped. Asked what it was worth, he replied: 'What anyone wants to pay, but it's worth a fortune to me."
Bell commented: "You need to get sorted out. If you don't I will have to say the licence goes."
Agreeing that his son was the licence holder, Shawcross said he had been unable to attend as he was abroad on holiday. His son did not know much about the vehicle.
Adjourning the hearing until June for Shawcross' son to appear before her as the licence holder, the IC said that this gave them a short amount of time to get their house in order.