Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)

[Mayneway]

RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)

(22/10/2016 12:55)motormayhem1 Wrote:  With the P.I pending and being at the courts in london it looks like traffic commissioners office is trying to finish them up once and for all even though personally i thought they had started doing a pretty decent job recently.

It dosen't excuse the way he simply closed up CBNW and started up with a new licence he'd bought from another company. Imagine being a driver who's suddenly been sacked as the company is being wound up only for a new company to start the day after from the same address with same directors and vehicles and some of your colleagues cherry picked to drive for the new company while your owed weeks wages.
The TC is right to want answers. They have some explaining to do simple as that.

[motormayhem1]

RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)

(22/10/2016 17:16)Mayneway Wrote:  It dosen't excuse the way he simply closed up CBNW and started up with a new licence he'd bought from another company. Imagine being a driver who's suddenly been sacked as the company is being wound up only for a new company to start the day after from the same address with same directors and vehicles and some of your colleagues cherry picked to drive for the new company while your owed weeks wages.
The TC is right to want answers. They have some explaining to do simple as that.

Don't get me wrong they deserve to be in front of the T.C for what happened over CBNW and felt sorry for those who lost there jobs, im just saying i think they have been doing a decent job lately but if the worse comes to worse and get there licence revoked then even more drivers would lose there jobs which is not something i would want to see happen again.

[robertclark125]

RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)
If I could add as well, on the topic of people shutting up shop then restarting another business, this has happened a few times in retail. I recall an edition of the BBC Watchdog programme, in the early 1990s, showing a man who had a furniture shop that shut, leaving folk out of pocket, then restarting elsewhere with the same stock. On that occasion, the DTI (department of trade and industry) investigated, and the man was banned as a director for several years.

What I'm going to say, basically, is it may not be the TC who is the only one wanting answers.

[Mayneway]

RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)

(22/10/2016 20:26)robertclark125 Wrote:  If I could add as well, on the topic of people shutting up shop then restarting another business, this has happened a few times in retail. I recall an edition of the BBC Watchdog programme, in the early 1990s, showing a man who had a furniture shop that shut, leaving folk out of pocket, then restarting elsewhere with the same stock. On that occasion, the DTI (department of trade and industry) investigated, and the man was banned as a director for several years.

What I'm going to say, basically, is it may not be the TC who is the only one wanting answers.

It's a tax fiddle. Existing company gets wound up at midnight and a new company with same address, directors etc opens at a minute past midnight and all debts are simply wiped away.

The bigger issue with bus and coach companies is the ops licence. When a company applies for a licence there vetted before one is granted or refused. In the case with CBNW they were confident they wouldn't get a new licence so simply went and 'acquired' one from another operator.

It's all good and well saying their 'doing well' but what's to stop them simply closing up when the debts get too big again.

[DK09 GXY]

RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)
Does anyone know the type of Displays used on the ex-Cardiff Darts here? They look very different to the Hanover and Mobitec ones used by Arriva in terms of font, and I Googled it and nothing came up
Thanks in advance

[YN05 WKE]

RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)

(05/11/2016 15:34)DK09 GXY Wrote:  Does anyone know the type of Displays used on the ex-Cardiff Darts here? They look very different to the Hanover and Mobitec ones used by Arriva in terms of font, and I Googled it and nothing came up
Thanks in advance

Vultron I believe

[DK09 GXY]

RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)

(05/11/2016 17:31)E208 WBG Wrote:  Vultron I believe

Thanks

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)
Catch 22 Update

http://fyldebus.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/c...pdate.html

Credit: Fylde Bus Blog.

Interesting to note that the 24 from 12th December on Sundays is extended to Knott End, which lost it's Sunday service following the LCC cuts earlier in the year.

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)
Looks like Catch 22s last day of operation is 17th January

Public Inquiry (72875) held at The Royal Courts of Justice,
Court 31 - West Green Building,
The Strand,
London, WC2A 2LL, on 7 November 2016 commenced at 10:30 (Previous Publication:(2731))
PC1067540 SI
CATCH22BUS LTD
Director(s): PHILIP HIGGS, DAVID HUGHES
BRINWELL ROAD GARAGE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4QU
S17 - Licence revoked with effect from 18 January 2017.
S28 - Philip Higgs disqualified with effect from 18 January 2017 for a period of 12
months.

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Oakwood Travel (Classic Bus North West)
I'm sure the passengers of Wyre (Cleveleys/Poulton/Fleetwood) area will get a shock on the 18th January as I can't see anyone coming in to take on these services.