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i'E'Ciligge:TA Haulier loses good repute for lack of effective control
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A full-time haulier, who was also nominated transport manager on four licences, has lost his repute after Deputy Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney concluded he could not achieve continuous and effective control.
Kenneth Williams, trading as Wirralbased Hoylake Commercials; Noel Mulry, trading as NSM International, of Liverpool; John Murphy, trading as Manchester-based Jahn Murphy & Son Plant Hire; and A&M Haulage, also of Manchester, were all called before the North Western DTC at a Leeds disciplinary Inquiry. The nominated transport manager on all four licences was Robert Hall.
Vehicle examiner Peter Turner said that during a maintenance investigation in November he was concerned that two types of driver defect report books used by Williams' drivers were causing confusion. He was unable to discuss his findings with Hall as he was not present, and he was told Hall was employed as a driver five days a week.
For Williams, Tim Culpin said that Hall was currently suspended from his employment because Williams had been unaware that he was the nominated transport manager on other licences.
Hall claimed he checked the vehicles every day. Hall said A&M's owner sold that company in November 2001 to a firm who then sold it on to a company in Northern Ireland. He had lost contact with them and had resigned as their transport manager last November. Hall said he received no payment as Williams' transport manager. The other operators paid £25 for the first two vehicles and then £10 per additional vehicle per week. He had visited A&M on three occasions and had visited Mulry a similar number of times.
For Murphy, Jonathan Backhouse said that he held his own CPC and Hall had resigned as his transport manager. He was being paid 2160 a month until January, when Murphy told him he would not pay him unless he started doing the job he was being paid to do.
The DTC said it seemed Hall had not been entirely forthright with his employer. It gave him considerable concern that Hall had driven trucks between 1998 and 2003 without a valid licence, when as transport manager his specific responsibility was to check drivers' licences.
Williams and Murphy were given formal warnings and Mulry's licence was revoked.