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• Overloading convictions resulted in Timothy O'Sullivan, trading as Express Deliveries, of Coventry, receiving a severe warning, when he appeared at a disciplinary inquiry before West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh.
The LA granted an application by the company to move the operating centre of its international licence, authorising 19 vehicles and 16 trailers, to the Balsall Heath premises of Caples Transport Services.
Producing a letter from the contractors, accepting full responsibility, Carless said the LA could be assured that overloading would not happen again. O'Sullivan would make sure that his drivers went to the nearest available weighbridge to check-weigh. The drivers had felt that they had done all that they could.
Commenting that the licence was due for renewal at the end of July 1990, Mervyn Pugh felt that it would be unfair to shorten the term of the licence, though that was what he would have done if it had longer to run.