• The rapid expansion of G & I Transport has
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pushed the company into disciplinary proceedings before Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Compton Boyd because of maintenance. The Northampton-based company held a licence for nine vehicles and trailers (with one vehicle and trailer to be acquired) until the LA curtailed the licence by one vehicle and trailer and prematurely terminated it to expire at the end of 1989 as a probationary measure. Evidence was given by a vehicle examiner of a spate of prohibition notices imposed on the company's vehicles early in 1988, and that the company's inspection records had been in a bad state. A recent visit, however, had shown some very definite improvements. Indicating that he was taking a lenient course, Brigadier Boyd said: "Let the proof of the pudding be in the eating, but don't give me something indigestible to eat!"