• A coach operator has obtained a PSV operator's licence
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following a long struggle during which he had to prove that links with his father's now-liquidated company did not exist.
In August last year an application for a six-vehicle licence by Kirnado, a firm set up by Andrew James the son of Sydney James (who ran the liquidated Invincible Travel) was refused by West Midlands Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh, because he was not satisfied about finance. During that hearing it was said that the only connection Sydney James had with the new company was his employment as transport manager.
Following the failure of Invincible Travel, Tarnbrook, trading as Invincible Coaches, was initially granted a short-period licence. Renewal was refused on financial grounds, a decision upheld on appeal to the Transport Tribunal.
A fresh application by Kimado, this time for a three-vehicle licence, was adjourned last October for the production of further financial information. It was further adjourned on 25 May because the Commissioner still required further financial evidence.
When the hearing was resumed, the financial evidence was heard in private at the request of the company. At its conclusion, Mervyn Pugh said sufficient evidence had been produced to satisfy him.
Andrew James said that he would be happy to accept a one-year licence in order to prove that he could operate satisfactorily.
The Traffic Commissioner said the some people might say that he had taken a risk in giving the company a licence and he did not want to see it back before him in six months' time because the maintenance had gone wrong. He did not believe he was taking a risk, and if all went well over the next 12 months the company would be granted a five year licence on the next occasion.