City Fruit fails • The licence held by Mohammed Ashaf,
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trading as City Fruit, of Swansea, was revoked when he failed to turn up at a Cardiff disciplinary inquiry. Ashaf had been called before South Wales TC John Mervyn Pugh following an unsatisfactory maintenance report and convictions for using a vehicle without an 0licence or excise licence.
Missing charts • Cardiff haulier Gwyn Davies, who used himself as a spare driver to cover for absent employees, was fined £255 by Llanelli magistrates for failing to carry his current week's tachograph charts in the cab of his vehicle. Davies failed to appear before the court.
No more trouble • Aberdeen-based H&F Moir has been warned by Scottish TC Michael Betts about the consequences of sustaining further convictions. The firm appeared at an Aberdeen disciplinary inquiry following convictions for falsifying tachograph records, failing to use record sheets, overloading and breaching the London lorry ban.
Councils lose • The Transport Tribunal has dismissed appeals by Surrey County Council and Guildford Borough Council against the decision of South Eastern and Metropolitan DTC Frances Burton granting authority to Greenwood & Co and C&M Haulage to use an operating centre at Guildford Road, Ash.