Ashvale loses
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• Bromley, Kent-based Ashvale Transport has lost its appeal against the decision of the South Eastern & Metropolitan LA Brigadier Michael Turner to cut the duration of the company's licence so that it now expires at the end of November.
Token payment
• A Hull Industrial Tribunal has ordered lorry driver Steven Naylor to pay token costs of £20 after deciding that his claim for unfair dismissal against Bibby Distribution Services had no reasonable prospect of success. Naylor was sacked because the company believed him guilty of theft.
Licence returned
• Bolton-based Collingwood Freight Services surrendered its licence shortly before it was due to appear at a Manchester disciplinary inquiry In May the company was fined £6,020, and ordered to pay £150 prosecution costs by Bolton magistrates, for failing to produce tachograph records.
Just in time
• Walsall-based Hamad Nawaz has won the late renewal of his two-vehicle licence at a Birmingham public inquiry Walsall Borough Council withdrew its objection after Nawaz agreed to the same environmental conditions being imposed as had been on his previous licence.