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• A Glasgow firm has lost its licence after repeatedly failing to supply the Traffic Commissioner with information he had required.
The three-vehicle licence held by Thomas and Elizabeth Baird, trading as 'rm. Haulage, of Cambuslang, was revoked by Scottish Commissioner Michael Betts after they failed to attend a Glasgow disciplinary inquiry Mrs Baird had said they had suffered a break-in and had lik,,t the date of the public inquiry.
Revoking the licence, Betts said it was granted in March 1993 with an operating centre at Bridgeton, Glasgow. In October 1994 a phone call was received saying that the operating centre was being changed to Bridge Street, Cambuslang,
No less than 12 letters were sent by the Traffic Area Office requesting the information need
ed to process the change but the partners failed to reply and also failed to provide a copy of the mandatory newspaper advertise ment. As a result, the application to use Bridge Street as the operating centre was refused in February, said Betts, but the partners had continued to use Bridge Street without authority.
The partners had also failed to notify the Traffic Area Office that the address they gave for correspondence in September 1996 was no longer correct.
Betts said he was not satisfied by this lapse, or by their explanation for failing to turn up at the public inquiry. He would have expected the partners to have asked about the date as a matter of urgency