O-licence lost for failure to co-operate with Vosa
An operator that played hard to get when approached by Vosa and the Traffic Area Office has lost its O-licence. The company director had claimed to be "frightened" by such approaches and had chosen to ignore them.
North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe revoked the two-vehicle licence held by D&S Services (Atherton), holding that both the company and its transport manager, Peter Churnside, had lost their repute. Neither the company nor Churnside appeared before the DTC.
Vehicle examiner Stephen Brock said that he had experienced great difficulty in contacting the company to carry out a maintenance investigation. When he did manage to do so, director Sean Eckersley said that he had received the telephone messages and letters, but had just panicked and filed them away, being frightened. The maintenance issues were quite minor, but the problem was getting hold of Eckersley.
