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'Shambles' firm loses licence
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• A Nottingham-based coach operator has lost his PSV licence after Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Compton Boyd described his business as "an administrative shambles of gargantuan proportions." Carlton Co-operative Coaches was appearing before the commissioner because of maintenance problems, and vehicle examiner Keith Bostock said that the firm did not appear to garage its vehicles properly either.
He told the inquiry that he had to work hard to locate Canton's coach, which was being kept at the Nottingham depot of Dunn-Line Travel. He was forced to impose an immediate prohibition on the unit. The coach had apparently not been used since September 1987. Carlton chairman Len Marshall said that his other coach had been burned out.
Marshall said that the second vehicle had been used for National Express work but they had not managed to repair the first vehicle.
Dunn-Line managing director Robert Dunn indicated that his firm would be willing to undertake the maintenance of the vehicles.
Boyd said there was something strange about the company's CPC holders. There was a Mr Roper in January 1985, who was not qualified. In June 1985 there was a Mr Steele, who was not acceptable, and there were another four nominated up to March 1987, three of whom had since resigned. The latest nominee, a Mr Newbury, had told Traffic Area staff that he did not want to be the transport manager.
Boyd had asked for the audited accounts, but all that had been produced were unsigned profit-and-loss statements for the year ending September 30 1987. These showed a loss of £510 and for the previous year showed a loss of £2,801.
Marshall said the company was getting a new accountant and would get audited accounts as soon as possible.
Refusing renewal, Boyd said that the word "Co-operative" was a misnomer, as no-one in the company seemed to cooperate with one another or with the system,