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Bruce: more hot water
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A SHEFFIELD COMPANY whose MD and two staff were ailed for aggravated racial harassment of an employee has had seven vehicles cut from its24-vehicle 0-licence.
Bruce Transport Services had been called before North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry. The TC was concerned about a failure to report two overloading convictions and a poor maintenance record as well the harassment convictions (CM 18 September 2003).
For the company, Gary Hodgson said that MD Damien Gaunt, who had been released after his jail sentence was reduced, had resigned on 8 January, to be replaced by director Edward Grant. Grant told the TC that there were two sites and Gaunt had been based at Tinsley Park Road, where the incidents occurred. The foreman and site manager had been prosecuted for their active involvement in the harassment; Gaunt's crime was failing to stop the persecution.
The company's employment procedures had since been reviewed and a human resources manager had been appointed.
Grant said it had not occurred to him that the convictions were going to affect the company's licence. He added that until the morning of the hearing he did not know that the company's initial pass rate at annual test was only 50%. This fact had been kept from him by the maintenance contractor. None of the current directors had any convictions Cutting the licence to 17 vehicles and one trailer, the TC said that this reflected the company's MoT pass rate. The company's repute was tarnished.but not lost.