After reading the article regarding the return of impounded vehicles [routeone/Court/13 February], I am somewhat surprised.
Here we have a school and a limited company operating passenger transport for its pupils under a section 19 permit.
After receiving a warning from the DVSA to put its house in order, it eventually has four vehicles impounded.
It applies for an 18-vehicle O-Licence, which it was granted, and yet the vehicles haven’t been returned.
I am little confused, it is doing nothing different from a CT operator performing passenger transport services. It’s a limited company, so it’s an obvious conclusion you arrive at.
There’s no protection from the Community Transport Association (CTA) or Department for Transport.
Perhaps it should become a CTA member and they would have intervened.
- Martin Allen, Bus and Coach Association