Archive: Public Inquiries
Haulage Operator Keeps Licence at Public Inquiry after Tachograph Offences and Financial Standing Concerns
A large haulage Operator, represented by SBC, was called to Public Inquiry before the Traffic Commissioner following evidence of driver tachograph offences. There had also been concerns over the Transport Manager’s good repute. A DVSA investigation had uncovered numerous tachograph offences committed by the drivers. The Operator gave evidence to […]
Phoenix and Fronting Concerns Allayed at Public Inquiry
This applicant company, represented by Harry Bowyer, was heavily linked by name, personel, location and plant to an Operator Licence holding company that had gone into administration in 2015. The sole director of the applicant company is the partner of the director of the old company. It became quite apparent during the […]
Public Inquiry – Operator Given Last Chance to Achieve Regulatory Compliance
The applicant company, represented by Martin Smith, had applied for a Standard National Operator’s Licence in the West Midlands Traffic Area where it had been using an unauthorised operating centre for some time. After the grant of an interim licence the Transport Manager resigned and in a letter to the Office […]
Operator Retains Licence following Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry
This holder of a Standard National Operators’ Licence was called to a Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry. The DVSA had conducted a maintenance investigation, the result of which had been unsatisfactory and there were a number of other issues of concern; the Daily Defect Reporting System was not being operated properly […]
Operator’s Licence Granted Following Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry
Case called into Public Inquiry in order to consider the grant of a Standard National Licence. The Operator had a conviction for running an LGV without an MOT in force and the Operator’s husband had an unfortunate history of failed licence holding companies. The Traffic Commissioner was concerned with the […]
Operator Retains Licence Following Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry
This London-based Operator had a frankly terrible history. He was running 8 skip-wagons and was encountered by DVSA on an almost daily basis. PG9’s flew thick and fast! Simon Clarke was called to represent the Operator at the Eastbourne Public Inquiry. The Traffic Commissioner was persuaded, just, to stay his […]
Operator’s Licence Granted Following Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry
Application for a restricted licence complicated by transport related convictions and failed licence holding businesses of one of the directors. Represented by Harry Bowyer at the Traffic Commissioners Public Inquiry the licence was granted subject to both directors attending Operator Awareness courses and a compliance audit after 6 months.
Operator Retains Licence Following Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry
An owner-driver based in the South of England was called in to a Public Inquiry and driver conduct hearing. It was alleged that he had failed to co-operate with DVSA in an investigation, failed to keep adequate records and had driven using the card of a driver whom DVSA were […]
O Licence Application Granted at Public Inquiry
The company made an application for a Standard National Operator’s Licence. The director of the applicant company had been the director of a previous company which had entered into administration owing in excess of £500,000 to creditors. The Director had also held the position of Transport Manager on the previous […]
PSV Operator Gets House in Order Prior to Public Inquiry
This PSV operator was called to a Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry following two distinct DVSA investigations into his PSV operators’ licence. These investigations revealed among other things that: a photocopied operator disc had been used public bus service routes had not been keeping to their prescribed timetables a passenger carrying […]
