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TC upholds previous decision
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The South Eastern & Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Philip Brown has confirmed his decision to grant only one additional trailer to Eastbourne-based All Pallets.
The company had applied to increase its licence from three vehicles to five vehicles and three trailers based at Newhaven. Maintenance problems resulted in the TC suspending the licence for five days. He was prepared to grant an additional trailer only after evidence from a traffic examiner that due to the number of pallets in the yard and the number of vehicles parked nearby, the site did not lend itself to the requested additional vehicles and trailers.
Following the TC's decision, the company appealed to the Transport Tribunal, which allowed the appeal, but only as far as the variation was concerned to the extent that it remitted the case back to the TC for further consideration (CM 5 June "Transport Tribunal upholds TC's decision').
Having considered the evidence again, the TC decided that his decision to grant the variation application for one additional trailer only should stand.
Wheel loss leads to vehicle cut
The authorisation on the licence held by Keighley-based Joda Freight has been cut from 101 vehicles and 120 trailers to 100 vehicles and 120 trailers following a wheel loss incident.
The company, which has 60 vehicles in its possession, was called before the North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney at a Leeds public inquiry. The TC was told that a maintenance investigation carried out by Vosa vehicle examiners had proved satisfactory and apart from the wheel loss incident there were no other problems. In addition to removing one vehicle from the margin on the licence, the TC issued the company with a warning.
High Peak Borough fails to show
Maintenance problems have resulted in the revocation of the licence held by High Peak Borough Council by the North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell.
The council, which had offered to surrender its licence authorising the operation of 38 vehicles and three trailers, with 17 vehicles in possession, failed to attend an Ashboume public inquiry.
Delaying the revocation for a month, the TC said the council had written to say that its transport functions were being contracted out in a month's time to Veolia Environmental Services. She criticised the council for not having the courtesy to appear before her.