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I'm stunned that a man with his record of convictions and disqualifications was (a) still in possession of a licence and (b) paid to drive a lorry around London, until he finally, and inevitably, killed someone.
I did a bit of googling and turned up this report from the Transport Tribunal into a 2002 case involving Thames Materials: http://www.transporttribunal.gov.uk/Aspx/view.aspx?id=60
The judgement seems mainly to do with a (successful) appeal on procedural grounds against a decision to revoke the firm's license, but the preamble contains a long list of reasons why that original decision was taken, i.e. 'unsatisfactory maintenance and convictions', an inquiry in 1999 due to 'concerns following examination of the company’s tachograph sheets', 'unsatisfactory fleet inspections', 'failure to record brake performance results' and 'further convictions' in 2001.
There doesn't seem to be any way I can see of finding out what they might have got up to since 2002, however.