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International firm given grace period to sort out its finances
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AN INTERNATIONAL operator has been given until January to sort out its finances before a revocation order sets in.
South Eastern SE Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps revoked the licence held by Margate-based John Marsh on financial grounds, with effect from the beginning of January.
In doing so the TC said he was giving Marsh the opportunity to reorganise his business and apply for anew licence.
I lowever, Marsh said he had no chance of increasing his overdraft facility and no immediate answer to his financial problems. He was awaiting a business plan and recommendations from his accountant Maintenance problems and drivers' hours and tachograph offences have also led to Marsh's international licence being cut from six vehicles and six trailers to five vehicles and five trailers.
Vehicle examiner Martin Vickery said one imme
diate and two delayed prohibitions had been issued since July 2004. Safety inspections had been extended from eight to between 12 and 31 weeks for vehicles and to between 18 and 49 weeks for trailers.
Marsh had told him the problem was partly due to finances. However, there was a good roadside and fleet inspection rate and a good, though worsening, first time pass rate at annual test.
Traffic examiner Rachel Connors said an examination of 617 tachograph records revealed three weekly rest offences, 23 daily rest offences, 22 daily driving offences and 24 41/2-hour driving offences. All 72 offences were pretty obvious.
She also had suspicions about the number of times the tachograph head had been opened, and about distance irregularities — 5,372km, a small percentage of the whole, was unaccounted for.
Marsh said he had not studied the tachograph records as he should have done due to lack of time.