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P CASE FOUR
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Immediate revocation due to safety fears
AN OPERATOR without a transport manager has lost its licence with immediate affect after appearing at its third public inquiry since September 2005.
Tom Macartney, the NorthEastern Traffic Commissioner, also disqualified Worksop-based Nowra Enterprises and its sole director Della Shaw from holding an 0-licence for 12 months.
In September 2005 the firm kept its licence after promising to improve its maintenance systems and employ a new transport manager. In October 2007 it was given a warning after agreeing a series of undertakings about vehicle maintenance.
It was again called before the TC following an unsatisfactory maintenance investigation and a lack of response from the company to letters from Vosa and the Tes office.
The TC was informed that a maintenance investigation followed the issue of an S-marked prohibition, indicating a serious lapse in maintenance, little more than a month after the last public inquiry.
Three vehicles were examined and two immediate prohibitions were issued. The company admitted that it had been functioning without a qualified transport manager from 18 December until mid-February, that the person appointed in February had left in May, and that currently no qualified transport manager was being employed.
Making the revocation and disqualification orders with immediate effect. the TC said the firm had a "sorry history" of inadequate systems, evident from the convictions, unsatisfactory maintenance investigations and prohibition notices. It was hard to envisage a more flagrant disregard for the niceties of operator licensing, he added.
The continued disregard for the minimum requirements of running a professional transport fleet made it overwhelmingly proportionate that the firm either ceased business or contracted out its transport operations to some other party able to provide transport competently.