Aston Clinton hit on licence
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By Derren Hayes • Aylesbury-based Aston Clinton Haulage has had its Operators Licence severely cut after a last-minute withdrawal from a Transport Tribunal appeal against the penalties.
The company, a Norbert Dentressangle subsidiary, is to have its licence reduced from 63 vehicles and 136 trailers to 35 vehicles and 90 trailers for six months starting from 4 March.
The cut was imposed by Eastern traffic commissioner Brigadier Compton Boyd three weeks after the company appeared on 3 March 1995 at a Cambridge public inquiry to answer questions about drivers' hours offences. The company was called to public inquiry after it pleaded guilty to 39 tachograph and drivers' hours offences at Aylesbury magistrates court in June 1994. It was ordered to pay £14,950 in fines and costs (CM 30 June-6 July 1994), and 17 Aston Clinton drivers were fined a total of £4,950 with £700 costs for excessive hours and taking insufficient rest.
At the inquiry last year, Boyd described the drivers' hours violations as a "serious dereliction of duty", and serious enough to consider revoking the 0licence. Boyd also took into account 115 breaches of regulations which had been committed by the company's drivers abroad.
The appeal against the decision, lodged nearly a year ago on 16 May 1995, was with drawn for unknown rea sons. Both Aston Clinton and Norbert declined to comment.
Aston Clinton Haulage: 0licence suffers.