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Operator's husband was banned from managing
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A failure to keep an undertaking has led to a Liverpool-based firm's licence being cut from two vehicles to one. Quicks (Liverpool), trading as Cleanfast Waste Collection Services, could also be subject of a full investigation by the Vehicle Inspectorate after allegations that it had been using red diesel and operating more vehicles than it was licensed to.
The firm's licence was cut when it appeared before North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe at a Trafford disciplinary inquiry.
Vehicle examiner Peter Turner said that during a maintenance investigation in April the firm's two vehicles were examined and given one immediate prohibition and one defect notice. The company's licence had been granted in June 2000. But the undertaking that an independent contractor would carry out audit checks once a week, and that records would be kept for 15 months had not been kept, Director Sandra Saleem said there had been a number of distractions. The person who had been carrying out the maintenance and audit checks had been going through a bankruptcy; there had been interference from her husband , who had lost his own licence; and she had been fighting off three employees who wanted to take over the business.
In reply to the DTC, Saleem agreed that the licence had been granted on the undertaking that her husband would have nothing to do with the company's management. Asked what her husband's role was, Saleem said that he was a driver and he made sure that the work they were contracted to do was carried out.
Cutting the licence, the DTC said the fact that the other undertakings had been complied with allowed him to narrowly avoid revocation.
However, he would be bringing the allegations of operating more vehicles than it was licensed for, and the use of red diesel, to the attention of Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell.