The director of West Midlands-based CCS Waste Ltd (company number 13161267), Shaun McCarron, and former transport manager, Chris Staples, were also disqualified from holding an operator licence and from being a transport manager on any licence respectively.
Mr McCarron was previously director of skip firm Jones Waste Services Ltd (company number 04152717).
Traffic commissioner Nicholas Denton revoked Jones Waste Service’s licence in January 2021 after the DVSA found “very large gaps between safety inspections”, “vehicles in a very poor condition”, “ineffective driver defect reporting” and “no analyses of tachographs or drivers’ hours”.
CCS Waste applied for a standard national operator’s licence on an application form signed by Mr McCarron on 23 February 2021, the Traffic Commissioner says, two weeks after the revocation of Jones Waste’s licence took effect.
The licence was granted under delegated authority by the central licensing office in Leeds.
In a written decision dated 3 May, Mr Denton said he would have called the application to a public inquiry had he been “aware” of it.
DVSA vehicle examiner Matthew Williscroft visited CCS Waste’s premises to conduct an investigation in November 2021, the Traffic Commissioner says, and his report marked the operator “unsatisfactory”.
In response, Mr Denton called CCS Waste to a public inquiry in Birmingham on 28 April 2022 and revoked the company’s licence.
Public inquiry
Mr Denton found that CCS waste failed to fulfil its undertakings that drivers would report defects in writing, that vehicles would be given safety inspections every six weeks and that rules on drivers’ hours and tachographs would be observed.
The operator is non-compliant in several fundamental respects
– Traffic commissioner Nicholas Denton
And, Mr Denton found the company “failed to establish sufficient clear blue water” between its operations and those of Jones Waste Services.
He also said the operator “lacks professional competence”.
In his decision, Mr Denton said: “The operator is non-compliant in several fundamental respects which present a serious danger to road safety, has never had professional competence, and is in effect a front for continued operations by Jones Waste Services Ltd.”
Disqualifications
Mr Denton concluded that CCS Waste “deserves to go out of business” as of 1 June 2022.
He disqualified Mr McCarron from holding an operator licence for “the upper end of the one-to-three-year scale given by the senior traffic commissioner as a starting point.”
Mr Staples was disqualified from being a transport manager on any licence for an indefinite period.
Mr Denton said: “Mr Staples has betrayed the trust which the public place in him, through the traffic commissioner, to ensure that an operator complies with rules relating to road and vehicle safety. He should not act as a transport manager again.”
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