Second truck refused
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• A Merseyside
at, company whose
only truck attract only truck attract ed six prohibition notices in its first eight months of operation has lost its bid for a second vehicle.
Bootle-based Quayrest appeared before North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. The company was also applying to add one vehicle to its existing licence for one vehicle and four trailers. Vehicle examiner Alan Barnes said he examined one vehicle and one trailer with prior notice in October and issued both of them with immediate prohibitions. Four immediate and two delayed prohibitions had been placed on the company's vehicles and trailers.
Inspection records and the driver defect reporting system appeared not to be up to the required standard. A number of the defects should have been picked up by the driver's daily walk-round check.