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Loyalty to son costs operator his O-licence

Erith-based operator Joseph Jebb’s standard international O-licence for six vehicles will be revoked on 1 March after police officers caught his son driving one of his trucks without a licence.

Waste haulier Whites Recycling fined £20,000 after stream turns black

Whites Recycling has been fined £20,000 after a stream was polluted following a land spreading operation in wet weather at a farm in the north-east.

Haulier fined £44,000 after worker severely injured

Building materials company Tudor Griffiths has been fined £44,000 after it failed to keep fixed guards in place on moving machinery at a quarry, causing serious injuries to an employee’s arm.

End of life for failing haulier

Blackburn-based Hesketh Transport Services has had its O-licence revoked for multiple failings including the discovery that its transport manager had been working elsewhere.

10 O-licence applications and decisions that caught our eye this week - 15 January 2019

CM picks out some of the latest O-licence decisions issued in the North East of England traffic area.

Arrests made following Northern Ireland fuel fraud raid

Two men have been arrested and a suspected fuel laundering facility dismantled as part of an HMRC investigation into what is believed to be a multi-million pound fraud.

Haulage company boss gets 18 months

A haulage company boss who was caught smuggling 2,000kg of hand-rolling tobacco into the UK, evading £442,360 in duty, has been jailed for 18 months.

Truck driver sentenced for cigarette smuggling

A truck driver who tried to smuggle more than 5 million illegal cigarettes into the UK hidden behind bags of soil, has been sent to prison for four-and-a-half years.