[2025] UKUT 217 (AAC)

At the relevant time Mr Brayley-Willmetts and Zena Gillbard were the nominated Transport Managers for Roger Gillbard and Zena Gillbard trading as Gillbard Plant (the Partnership), who held a standard national goods vehicle operators licence granted in February 2020, authorising the use of two vehicles from an operating centre in Launceston. Since February 2024 they have been authorised to use those vehicles from a second site at Dingle Brothers in Bodmin.

A previous public inquiry took place in April 2022 as a result of which the Partnership was issued with a formal warning arising out of the unsatisfactory outcome of a DVSA desk-based assessment. By the time of the public inquiry Mr Brayley-Willmetts had become the Transport Manager and Zena Gillbard was added as Transport Manager in November 2022.