The South Eastern & Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Philip Brown has confirmed his decision to grant only one additional trailer to Eastbourne-based All Pallets.
The company had applied to increase its licence from three vehicles to five vehicles and three trailers based at Newhaven. Maintenance problems resulted in the TC suspending the licence for five days. He was prepared to grant an additional trailer only after evidence from a traffic examiner that due to the number of pallets
in the yard and the number of vehicles parked nearby, the site did not lend itself to the requested additional vehicles and trailers.
Following the TC's decision, the company appealed to the Transport Tribunal, which allowed the appeal, but only as far as the variation was concerned to the extent that it remitted the case back to the TC for further consideration. Having considered the evidence again, the TC decided that his decision to grant the variation application for one additional trailer only should stand.
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