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McAndrew in local bus ban
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• Anthony McAndrew, trading as Central Coaches & Taxis, of Leamington Spa, has been banned from registering any further local services for 12 months by West Midland Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh.
The ban follows 188 complaints by Warwickshire County Council and competitors G&C Coaches (Leamington) about the operation of three services by McAndrew. The complaints included allegations about the non-operation of journeys, de viations from registered routes, the linking of services, and failures to operate to time. McAndrew admitted 45 of the complaints and Mervyn Pugh found a further 28 proved.
It was conceded that journeys on the Warwick/ Leamington service had not been operated when there were staffing problems, that being the least utilised service, and that journeys on separate registered services had been Linked together for the same reason.
McAndrew intended to abandon the Warwick/Leamington service in the near future. Imposing the ban, Mervyn Pugh said he felt that the case had arisen out of a lack of understanding of the requirements of the 1985 Act. McAndrew had been an amateur in a professional world, and unfortunately it was this kind of situation that brought discredit to the PSV industry.
This case, said the LA, was a warning to all other operators who were primarily taxi operators, and who thought that it was easy to enter the PSV world: McAndrew had found to his cost that it was not.