The director of Roman Haulage, which closed down in October, has confirmed to the administrator that the business failed because its licence was cut in half by the traffic commissioner.
Administrators were appointed to the South-East London muckaway and aggregate haulier by its factoring company Hitachi on 30 October, but by this point the haulier had already ceased trading.
Roman Haulage appeared before TC Nick Denton in September after a DVSA investigation into drivers’ hours and tachograph offences. As a result, its licence was curtailed to eight HGVs from 16.
According to a report filed at Companies House by administrators at Wilkins Kennedy, director Deborah Balman said “that a restriction was placed on the goods vehicles operator’s licence following a problem with one of its vehicles and driver. This resulted in the closure of the company”.
Hitachi contacted Wilkins Kennedy because it had been experiencing difficulties with obtaining information from the company and had received notice of a meeting of creditors to place the company into creditors’ voluntary liquidation.”
The report added: “The finance companies sought to recover their property, but a number of vehicles and items of equipment appear to be missing.”
