GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

[Mayneway]

RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

(16/08/2016 20:17)Raawwwrrr! Wrote:  Technically they haven't 'set up' another company. The licenses were first registered in 2008 with several changes to the address. This is actually something that has laid dormant for some time.

This is the part of the industry that needs tightening up. The fact some operators sit on unused dormant licences for years on the off chance that they get a knuckle wrapping from the TC and a licence reduction then just simply register some of thier services on a dormant licence. First Manchester famously did this many years ago. There VA was reduced and they simply registered one of there depots entire services on the licence of Pioneer travel which they had acquired some years previously and allowed to go dormant.

Historians among us will remember the fiasco 12/13 years who with UK North in Manchester. They had there licence reduced after issues with maintaince, then when things got heated with Stagecoach they applied to increase it and were flatly refused so simply registered a seperate company applied for a licence and it was granted - they doubled there disks over night and we all know how it ended.
But after the fiasco which saw the directors jailed the TC vowed to tighten things up and make it harder for those with a not so good reputation to have any connection to a licence yet clearly that's not happened.