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Removals firm 'lucky to keep licence'
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A LONDON removals firm has lost its appeal against a cut in licence authority and must now operate with less than a third of its fleet.The TransportTribunal said the company was lucky to escape revocation.
Battersea-based Moving Home had appealed against the decision of the South-Eastern & Metropolitan Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mary Kane to cut its licence from 10 vehicles and 10 trailers to three vehicles and 10 trailers.She had also ruled that transport manager Irshad Choudry had lost his repute. The company had been called before the D because of a series of drivers' hours and tachogn infringements. The DTC had been told that analysis of 153 charts had revealed 104 infringeme and 6,535km were unaccounted for.
In 2003, the licence had been curtailed by 1 vehicles for three months for similar offences.
Choudry told the Transport Tribunal the DT decision had been looseverebecause he had not tal account of the fact that the situation had improN Choudry maintained that most breaches were min, Dismissing the appeal, the Tribunal said that e' now Choudry seemed unable to appreciate serious position in which he and the company fot themselves, In 2003, a short curtailment had hi ordered as a warning. In 2004 the very same t: of infringements were still being committed, vl Choudry himself being a substantial offender. 1 was a near-revocation situation, with the curtailm being a merciful outcome.