Archive: Public Inquiries
Covid Failure of a Business Causes Difficulty for a New Application
Lots of businesses faced difficulties in the aftermath of the Covid Crisis and those that did not survive often find themselves with out an O licence. Solicitor Murray Oliver helped this operator to understand the reasons why the Traffic Commissioner was asking difficult questions and we advised on the response […]
Coach Operator Hangs on to its O licence and Given a Chance to Right Earlier Wrongs
An arrangement between two operators for one operator to borrow a coach caused the Traffic Commisioner to review all aspects of the operation. Only to discover that there were some serious compliance issues caused by an ineffective transport manager and lack of oversight from the director. Undoubtedly this was a […]
Scaffolding Operator finally gets it right
The transition of businesses between generations can often create a difficulty with Operators licence Applications. This New Ltd company, represented at Public inquiry by solicitor Murray Oliver, was taking over a Scaffolding Business from the director’s father and two failed or withdrawn O licence applications meant that when the third […]
Catering Firm Keeps Licence after Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry
This Operator, represented at Public Inquiry by barrister Harry Bowyer, suffered badly during the Covid 19 pandemic and standards slipped badly. After an unsatisfactory DVSA investigation they were called into Public Inquiry. They instructed a competent transport consultant to fix their systems and the Traffic Commissioner dealt with them by […]
Death of Transport Manager Leads to Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry
This operator, represented at Public Inquiry by barrister Harry Bowyer, suffered the death of their transport manager. The death was unexpected and the transport manager was in continuous and effective control until shortly before he died. The operator had a new CPC holder in place in relatively short order and […]
14 Vehicle PSV Operator Receives 1 Vehicle Curtailment Following Propose to Revoke
Millicent Dooher, barrister, represented this PSV operator at their Public Inquiry before the Office of the Traffic Commissioner for Scotland. The operator had been called in following a propose to revoke letter, an unsatisfactory DVSA assessment that raised wide ranging issues over both maintenance and driver’s hours concerns as well […]
Haulier keeps a 4 vehicle O licence and Transport Manager keeps his Good Repute at Public Inquiry following DVSA inspection that identified serious shortcomings
When the ministry calls they look into every aspect of the systems operatre to ensure vehicles and trailers are operatred safely and that the Operators have sufficient continuous knowledge of their operation so that they can make effective management decisions. We helped the operator to explain what had happened and […]
New Application for an Operating Centre prompts an Investigation which Reveals Self Employed Drivers
When DVSA discovered irregularities with operating centres and drivers hours following an application for an O licence, a Public inquiry followed. A prompt recognition of the problems faced, involvement of a well respected Transport Consultant helped to protect the business and to provide some space to regularise their compliance and […]
Lost wheel on a light Trailer towed behind a van brings HGV operator before the Traffic Commissioner
The loss of any wheel of any vehicle will almost always come to the attention of the Traffic Commissioner. This operator experiences a wheel loss on a light goods vehicle trailer that was not inscope of the operators licence. This brought the spotlight on the opertors licence and Public Inquiry […]
2 Clandestine Entrants Caused Border Force to Issue a £32,000 penalty which we Helped to Reduce to £12,000 on behalf of this Polish Operator
£32,000 civil penalty reduced to £12,000 after appeal litigated by solicitor, Murray Oliver
