Move refusal
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• Bids by Michael Spanton, licensed for six vehicles, and Clive Lansdale, licensed for two vehicles, to move their operating centres to High Breck Farm, Taverham, Norwich, were refused by Eastern DIV Ian Fowler following an objection from the local council and representations from neighbouring residents.
One down
• Maintenance problems have led to the authorisation on the licence held by Luton-based Pilot Hire being curtailed from six to five vehicles for six months. The company appeared at a Cambridge disciplinary inquiry before Eastern DTC Philip Brown.
Conspiracy charge
• Grays magistrates have committed Anthony Myers, a director of Bj Myers Haulage, of Purfleet, and administration manager George Pickering, for trial at Chelmsford Crown Court on a charge of conspiring to cause drivers to commit offences. Myers also faces 11 counts of causing drivers to falsify tachograph records.
Barr warned
• Girvan-based Barr was given a formal warning about its future maintenance standards when the company appeared before Scottish TC Michael Betts at a Glasgow disciplinary inquiry The company's application for additional operating centres at Ayr, Glenluce and Kirkcudbright was granted.