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• Cowbridge-based Simon Leadbeater Transport's licence was curtailed to two vehicles and three trailers at a Cardiff disciplinary inquiry South Wales TC David Dixon requires its annual accounts to be sent to the TAO by 15 September.
Unreturned charts
• Causing two drivers to fail to take weekly rests and to fail to return tacho charts led to Walker & Sons (Leicester) being tined £4,500, with £200 costs, by the city's magistrates. The drivers were fined a total of £900 with £600 costs.
Big vehicle cut
• Maintenance problems and convictions have led to the licence held by Paisley-based Thomas Houston & Son (Johnstone) being cut from 55 vehicles and 200 trailers to 37 and 140. Scottish TC Michael Betts also suspended four vehicles for a week.
Hedge pledge
• Colin Kinch was granted a new 10 vehicle licence at an Alton public inquiry with environmental conditions and a requirement to cut a hedge in front of his operating centre.
Bid withdrawn
• A bid for a new two-vehicle licence by Charnjit Dhoot, trading as Euro Accustom Transport, of Hayes, was withdrawn when he appeared at a Sutton public inquiry before South Eastern and Metropolitan IC Brigadier Mike Turner.