[2024] UKUT 132 (AAC)

The operator’s notice of appeal to the Upper Tribunal, drafted by the operator’s director, Rhianna Hughes, argues that the operator’s licence was revoked unfairly for the following reasons:

when Ms Hughes became a director of the operator on 15 February 2023, there was a full change of staff, and she arranged for a transport manager to “apply for the licence”;

upon learning that the Traffic Commissioner had doubts about the competence of her initial proposed transport managers, she “immediately sought out employment of a new transport manager who applied to the licence”. This was all done before 9 April 2023 which led Ms Hughes to believe that no further period of grace would be necessary;

unfortunately, a section was “missed” in Mr Ford’s transport manager’s application. The Commissioner’s questions which were answered by email on 21 April 2023;

“the matter of financial standing is still ongoing as when the previous director changed all of the company details over he added the significant person of control as a firm and not an individual”. This prevented Ms Hughes from opening a bank account in the company’s name and she was in correspondence with Companies House about rectification of the mistake. Once that is done, “I will be able to send over the full financial standing for Croft Travel (Lancashire) Ltd”.