A failure by Smethwick-based Thandi Red Ltd to provide required location data for vehicles that operate the company’s registered services to the Bus Open Data Service without a reasonable excuse has led to it being ordered to pay a penalty of £1,500 by Traffic Commissioner (TC) Miles Dorrington at a Birmingham Public Inquiry.
In addition, Mr Dorrington cut the company’s O-Licence authorisation from 20 vehicles to 15 for a period of a fortnight after hearing evidence of a DVSA maintenance investigation that highlighted some shortcomings.
The TC held that the good repute of the company was “badly tarnished but not lost,” and that Director Armadeep Thandi, as Transport Manager (TM), retained his good repute by the very narrowest of margins.
That came after the TC accepted an undertaking from Mr Thandi that he would not put himself forward to be a TM on any O-Licence unless he had first been given written permission by the TC.
Consequently, Mr Dorrington held that Mr Thandi’s good repute as a TM was “hanging by a thread, but not lost.”
Thandi Red is not associated with any other operator of similar names.
