msgyorkie:
We have a newsclip up on our works poster board about a certain Crane Hire Company that Rikki has mentioned above. Read all about it here.
Baldwins Crane Hire loses its vehicle licence | Construction Enquirer News
or here.
Baldwins Crane Hire operators licence revoked and directors disqualified
Yeah drive the ballast truck out put on rest.
Do 12 hour shift on contract lift slinging or supervising then drive ballast truck again.
But then there no restrictions on cranes, some of those cranes are 100 ton on the road.
No tacho. Red diesel. No MOTS. Thinks it’s something crazy like 200 a year for road tax.
Don’t think it’s going last forever like this thou.
msgyorkie:
We have a newsclip up on our works poster board about a certain Crane Hire Company that Rikki has mentioned above. Read all about it here.
Baldwins Crane Hire loses its vehicle licence | Construction Enquirer News
or here.
Baldwins Crane Hire operators licence revoked and directors disqualified
Interesting links.
Couple of choice quotes:
"The falsification of records to make it appear that drivers had taken appropriate rest goes absolutely to the heart of road safety. In the case of this operator, five out of seven drivers investigated in 2014 were found to be so offending.
A follow-up investigation in 2015 found the offending, if anything had worsened with eighteen drivers found to be offending. This was at a time when the company had been under the DVSA spotlight as well as been subject to a Health and Safety Executive investigation in relation to the manslaughter of one of its drivers."
And:
Richard Baldwin, writing on the firm’s website, said: “For the sake of clarification, this disqualification only relates to the individuals being directors or senior managers in a company that holds an operator’s licence (that is to say a company carrying out haulage activities, whether for hire or reward or for use in connection with the company’s own business).
“The disqualification does not prevent them being a director or senior manager in any other company – for example the crane hire company. The disqualifications are, in any event, to be appealed along with the decision to revoke the company’s operator’s licence.”
Incredible !
Even more incredible they got granted an interim O licence in Jan 2017 in two areas, although in reality Metcalfe Farms do most of their ballast moves atm
baldwinscranehire.co.uk/news … ement.html
commercialmotor.com/news/com … -o-licence