Northport Company Could Lose Tuscaloosa License

Complaints are prompting a second hearing on the business licensed for Skinner Transportation Service. The Tuscaloosa City Council's meeting agenda Tuesday night includes a resolution that, if approved, would dissolve the business license of the much-maligned Northport based company.

Pages 5 and 6 of the resolution before the council lists a long series of public and official complaints involving the company.

The resolution alleges the city has received complaints from the public and responded to calls concerning Skinner Transportation Service, "...utilizing drivers without the proper chauffer license and vehicles without proper commercial insurance."

The resolution states the complaints against the company claim they have become a public nuisance and are dangerous to public safety, health and welfare.

On September 17 last year a public hear was conducted by the Tuscaloosa City Council to consider the possible revocation of Skinner's Tuscaloosa Business License. At that hearing evidence was presented that Skinner Transportation Services had been presented with numerous warnings and citations for using unlicensed taxicab drivers and that the vehicles used by the company were uninsured. Company officials appearing before the council than night promised to make improvements.

In 2022, Skinner Transportation was presented the Euless "Bick" Moore Award for Business in Tuscaloosa by the Tuscaloosa Ministerial Alliance.

Skinner Transportation Services offers a shuttle pickup and drop off service for Alabama home games, trips to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, taxi service, car service and charter transportation services.

This is an ongoing story that Tuscaloosa Thread will follow through tomorrow night's Tuscaloosa City Council public hearing and its aftermath. The council meeting begins at 6:00pm.