Cooper reduced
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• Maintenance problems have resulted in the authorisation on the licence held by Derek Cooper (Transport), of Bury St Edmunds, being cut from 175 vehicles and 294 trailers to 174 vehicles and 292 trailers. The company appeared at a Cambridge disciplinary inquiry.
Change dropped
• An overloading charge involving the movement of an abnormal load by Rufford, Lancs-based heavy haulier JB Rawcliffe & Sons was dropped when the company appeared before Yate magistrates. It had been alleged that an outfit carrying a rotor from a power station to GEC at Trafford Park had exceeded its permitted train weight.
Pay back
• Though maintaining that Bishopton haulier Maurice Burke, trading as MP Burke Transport, had not unfairly dismissed Renfrew lorry driver Kenneth Johnson, an Edinburgh Industrial Tribunal ordered Burke to pay Johnson £423.28 in respect of unauthorised deductions in pay.
Time faults
• Newton Stewart haulier Robert Houston has to wait to see what action Scottish TC Michael Betts is to take against his licence following a Dumfries disciplinary inquiry. Houston had been called before the 'IV bemuse of breaches of the tacho rules and speeding by his drivers.