Hauliers risk losing centres
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by Lee Kimber • More than 400 hauliers in Yorkshire and the North-east risk losing their 0-licences by the end of July as the Traffic Area Office punishes those that have switched operating centres illegally.
Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth says more than 400 letters to the office's operating centres were returned marked "gone away" when it sent all its centres details of the new continuous licensing arrangements.
"I am now prepared to revoke the licences of operators whose staff I have been unable to contact or locate," he warns.
He believes many of the operators have moved without telling the TAO where they were going—a breach of operating centre licensing terms.
Now Waterworth is urging North-Eastern operators who have moved and not told the TAO to ring in on 0113 283 3562. Those that don't will have their licences revoked by the end of July.
Government officials say they have no figures for the number of missing operators nationwide, but a West Midlands TAO spokesman confirmed that "quite a few hundred" letters were returned when the office mailed centres.