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Licence curtailment after fitness “severely tarnished”
26 May 2021
Compliance
An Essex operator has had two HGVs cut from its licence after the traffic commissioner expressed concerns at its lack of compliance regarding drivers’ hours management, defect reporting and maintenance. Thurrock Scaffolding Services appeared before TC Richard Turfitt via a video link after failing to provide financial evidence within a given deadline.
27 May 2021
Product
TIP Trailer Services has placed an order for 1,000 new SDC semi-trailers, continuing a 20-year relationship between the two companies.
The order is for a wide range of trailers, including curtainsiders, box vans, skeletals, platforms and drawbar trailers, and will be delivered over the next six months. It consists of a mix of both TIP-specified builds for its rental, lease, and contract hire fleet, and customer-specified trailers. Many of the latter will be built to TIP’s UK and Irish customers’ own specifications, and finished in their dedicated liveries.
Karl Davies, commercial director at TIP, says: “TIP has experienced a high demand for new trailers over the last 12 months. In 2020, we took delivery of over 2,000 SDC trailers and we predict that this demand will continue throughout this year. Fleet renewal is also a key part of this investment and, in line with our ‘2025 roadmap to complete digitalisation’ for our entire fleet, we will equip ne
26 May 2021
Compliance
A director who failed to disclose he had a conviction for conspiracy to supply cocaine and who then committed various driver offences and compliance failings, has been disqualified. Gary Ewen, who ran Eye-based Eagle Haulage, “blatantly undermined” trust in the licensing regime according to Eastern area traffic commissioner Richard Turfitt.
Concerns about the haulier arose when one of its lorries was stopped twice and the driver was found to have been removing his card from the tachograph. The director himself was also found to have been driving without his driver’s card inserted; on one occasion for more than two hours. A third driver for Eagle Haulage was pulled over by the DVSA and he was found to have been driving without his CPC qualification card and his professional driver’s entitlement had expired in 2017.