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Licence slashed for lousy record
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• A Kent-based haulage firm has had its Operator's Licence cut from 49 vehicles to 40 after a string of convictions and prohibitions stretching back to 1999.
Croome Goldstar Logistics faced Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps at a Public Inquiry in Eastbourne last week. Heaps heard the schedule of convictions and offences, including a notification of prosecution back in April 2000 for using non-European drivers to drive British-registered trucks as well as failing to return tachograph charts, for which the company was fined £12,000.
The VI gave evidence of the prohibitions incurred and undertakings not fulfilled which led to Heaps curtailing Croome's licence with immediate effect.
MD for Croome Goldstar, David Crane, holds his hand up to the offences: The Southeast has the most stringent of stringent application of laws concerning road transport in the UK," he says. "We didn't meet the required standard and we have paid the penalty" He says the company will not lodge an appeal.
Mick Rennison, for the Socialist Truck Drivers, believes the problem of using nonEuropean drivers is now getting out of hand: "As far as the drivers are concerned we have been campaigning for some time. There should be a minimum wage for non European drivers because we are getting more and more reports of companies using this set-up. Eastern Europeans are queuing up for work."