No CPC so no licence
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• The inter national licence held by Nigel Butler, trading as Mars & Butler, of Luton, was suspended after his nominated transport manager said he had never been employed by Butler.
Butler had been called to a Cambridge disciplinary inquiry before Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Compton Boyd.
The Commissioner said that when Butler was granted an 0licence for three vehicles and one trailer he had produced a contract of employment for his nominated transport manager, Dennis Black. But the Traffic Area had since received a letter from Black in which he maintained he had never been employed by Butler.
On balance he believed that Butler had put Black's name forward in order to gain an international licence, with no real intention of employing him. In that sense there had at best been an attempt to mislead, and at worst to deceive.
He cut the duration of Butler's licence to expire at the end of next May; curtailed the authorisation to two vehicles and one trailer, and suspended the licence until he is satisfied that Butler is employing an international CPC holder as transport manager.
Any application to downgrade the licence will be approved; in such an event, the suspension will be lifted.