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Yare wins licence back and quits
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A GREAT Yarmouth haulage company is to close at the end of the year. despite successfully appealing against the revocation of its 0-licence after drivers repeatedly flouted hours' regulations.
Yare Haulage, a subsidiary of shipping and forwarding giant Frans Maas, is one of the largest employers in the area. The company will cease trading on 31 December because it is making a loss, says sales and marketing director Roger Chumbley. Accounts filed at Companies House show a 2003 loss of £6,182 after tax; down from a profit of £61,733 in 2002.
However, the company, which operates a fleet of 19 trucks and employs 32 staff, had only recently managed to overturn Eastern TC Geoffrey Simms' decision to revoke its licence after he described Yare's drivers' hours offences as "frightening".
The disciplinary inquiry had heard two drivers claim they felt pressurised by operations manager Brian Blowers; if they did not to do the work, they said, they were treated badly (CM 16 September).
The Transport Tribunal found in favour of the company on 4 November — a spokeswoman says the decision to close was a separate issue: "We are delighted with the appeal finding.
"Yare Haulage was run as a good and respectable company and we wanted it to be clear to everyone. The decision [to close] was based purely on viability."