Controlled Revocation Allows Sufficient Time for Application for New Licence Without Break to Business

This operator, represented at Public Inquiry by barrister Harry Bowyer, was called in owing to an unsatisfactory Traffic Examiner’s report. The problem was based on the transport manager allowing compliance to slip owing to his own personal problems. The operator should have noticed that the operation was not compliant but failed to do so until the Traffic Examiner attended. Much was done in an attempt to put things right including the appointment of a new transport manager. Things were still not compliant at the time of the Public Inquiry. The operator’s woes were compounded by the fact that, at the time of the Public Inquiry and for about three months before, the operator could not meet his financial standing requirements in an approved manner.

The Traffic Commissioner was of the view that the current licence could continue but allowed sufficient time before it was revoked in order that a new licence might be applied for and indicated that provided certain conditions were met the new application would go through “on the papers.”