Crowthers loses licence
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• Craven Arms-based Crowthers Livestock Haul . age lost its licence when it failed to appear at disciplinary proceedings in Birmingham before West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh.
The company held a national licence for a eight vehicles and six trailers. It had been called to a public inquiry because of a number of convictions and doubts over the location of the company's operating centre.
Previous disciplinary pro
ceedings involving Crowthers, and the associated W Burgoyne & Sons, had been adjourned in 1987 after the LA was told that though the two firms had been evicted from their operating centre because the site had been sold, they were expecting the new owners to allow them to return. (CM 23 May, 1987). Subsequently an application by Majorie Burgoyne to take over the W Burgoyne & Sons licence was refused, and that licence was not renewed.
Convictions were recorded against the company for offences relating to the falsification of tachograph charts in October 1985, and in relation to similar offences, together with driver's hours offences and offences of failing to produce tachograph charts, in November 1986. (CM 22 November 1986).
Revoking the licence, Mervyn Pugh said there had been no correspondence from the company about the suitability of its operating centre. It had failed to appreciate that the law required a vehicle to have an operating centre. The company had had every opportunity to communicate with the Traffic Area Office, and had been given every opportunity of presenting its case.