Banged to Rights

On the case of the Scottish operator who the traffic commissioner said lied at public inquiry, misplaced documents, forged O-licence discs, passed off as Stagecoach, failed to run bus services satisfactorily and defiantly continued to operate free after its O-licence was withdrawn last April, Stewart Brown, who could hardly contain his contempt, commented in Bus & Coach Professional, “If ever there was a case for having vehicle-specific O-licence discs, this is it. It’s the kind of story which paints the worst picture of what can go wrong in Britain’s market-led bus industry” and “if it wasn’t so serious, it would be laughable”. The operator receiving an indefinite ban? Bankfoot Buses.