suspension of the Operator's Licence held by an Essex company
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which delivers 10,000 meals a day to NHS hospitals. Colchester-based Anglia Crown Catering was called before Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms at a Cambridge disciplinary inquiry; the company holds a licence authorising the operation of 10 vehicles.
The IC was told that the company's business was the preparation, chilling and delivery of meals to hospitals using a fleet of 7.5-tonners in an area bounded by Brighton, Oxford and Nottingham.
Traffic examiner Ernie Watson said that an examination of the company's tachograph charts revealed that eight of its nine drivers had been speeding regularly, with each driver having offended on between 10 and 44 separate occasions in March and April. In addition, several of the drivers had failed to take the required 45-minute break after driving for 4.5 hours.
Suspending the licence with effect from 22 October, the IC said that the company had clearly failed to fulfil the undertakings given when it applied for the licence, in that it had failed to ensure that its driver's complied with the law.