DANSA paper trail
Thanks to the tenacity of a B&CB correspondent, I now have more of a paper trail which, eventually, led up to the Traffic Commissioner for Wales,...
ATG rescue sees NatEx using S19 permits
Traffic Commissioner Nick Denton took the unusual decision to issue the permits on a short-term basis to ensure that children in the West Midlands...
Principles and pragmatism
The council audit which revealed the scale of deficiency in the Accessible Transport Group (ATG) in the West Midlands is a shocker. ATG ran 600...
What an industry
It is always sad to hear of the loss of someone in the industry, but the news that we have lost Aled Evans, who ran Impression Holidays, is...
Will EC change define S19 exemption?
An amendment to The European 1071/2009 regulation which currently offers the ‘non-commercial’ exemption on which Section 19 permit use depends...
‘Commercial interest’ stalls not-for-profit investigation
An investigation into the circumstances in which DANSA – the community transport company sanctioned at Public Inquiry – had licensing charges...
TC: ‘S19 and O licences don’t mix’
South Wales community transport operator, DANSA, has been given until the New Year to convert its entire operation to O licensing. Traffic...
NatEx to run school services of defunct CTO
Birmingham City Council has handed ‘the majority’ of its home-to-school transport services left high and dry by the collapse of the Accessible...