Dentressangle gets a chance out East
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• Norbert Dentressangle (UK) has retained its good repute despite breaches of the drivers' hours rules on the Continent, and the issue of 18 prohibition notices since August 1997, But Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms has cut the company's licence by 28 vehicles and 28 trailers for a period of three weeks.
The IC said he had been thinking of revoking the licence but managing director Petar Cvetkovic's attendance at the tribunal had persuaded him to give it a final chance.
Simms added that Norbert Dentressangle was fortunate to get this opportunity to bring this limb of its operation up to the standard he demanded of licence holders in the Eastern Traffic Area, where the company holds a licence for 63 vehicles and 63 trailers.
In April 1995 convictions for drivers' hours and tachograph offences led to the licence being cut to 35 vehicles for a period of six months.
The TC said that to find the company had lost its good repute he would need to find instances of gross negligence.
Cutting the licence to 35 vehicles and 35 trailers for three weeks. the IC said it always disturbed him when operators reappeared at public inquiries, particularly, as in this case, the interval between inquiries was only five years.