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Named and shamed Taxi Operators:

Taxi operator Ajit Satsavia, Based in Leamington has been fined £1,650 and disqualified from driving for six months, after pleading guilty to a number of charges before Magistrates.

He had been using dangerous vehicles to transport school children.

Other crimes included using drivers who were not licensed, driving without insurance, without an MOT, and driving vehicles that were in a dangerous condition.

In January of this year, spot checks were carried out by Warwick District councils licensing enforcement officer on vehicles owned by Satavia’s company, Markhams/Avon Knight Taxi’s of High Street Leamington. At the time the vehicles were being used under contract to transport children to Ridgeway School in Warwick.

Two unlicensed drivers were also convicted, Gurdip Singh Heer and Alan Taylor Heer was fined £350 and Taylor was fined £300.

For anyone who knows this case my questions here are;

Why was there such a delay in prosecution?

How unlicensed vehicles were allowed to gain business to ferry school children, surely the council would have checked to see if the company, drivers and vehicles were properly licensed before giving them the contract?

Or was the school a private one? They should still have checked.

It is becoming more common now for large corporates as part of there health and safety regs to only use licensed vehicles, why don’t the schools adopt the same regs?

Regards

Eric

Alas the wheels of justice move an a snail's pace. I also suspect the council took ages to get the balls to prosecute in the first palce.

I suspect the tender was won by a licensed operator, maybe the mush himself, but he decided there was more money in it for him if he ignored the law.

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