Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)

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RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)
Courtesy of the Catch22 bus Facebook page

Appeal Decision
We have learned that the Transport Tribunal will not support our grounds for appeal against the Traffic Commissioner’s November 2016 decision. The Appeal only considered a single point – whether the TC was within his right to decide against fitness to hold a licence based on exposing the Senior Traffic Commissioner for committing motoring offences.
We are obviously disappointed in the Tribunals decision but are not surprised because it considered no new information that has come to light even since the appeal hearing. It seems absurd that a finding could be made that we are unlikely to comply with the operating regime when it has been shown that we have always complied.
Since the November 2016 decision, the DVSA has admitted to making “Genuine errors” in assessing our compliance and the DfT has agreed to hold a judge led inquiry into the conduct of the former Senior Traffic Commissioner.
Based on the DVSA admission, we should never have been called to public inquiry in the first place and we are lodging an application to stay the decision to the Court of Appeal.
The case continues….”