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Tribunal rejects appeal from haulier who threatened OTC
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A Lancashire operator who physically threatened a traffic examiner and subjected her to a stream of foul language has lost his bid to regain his Operator's Licence.
Lancashire-based David Crompton had pushed his finger into the face of Traffic Examiner Karen Farr, called her obscene names and told her that he would "get her" following the initial revocation of his licence (CM5-11July 2001).
Also his brother, Gordon Crompton. told Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hincliffe that he would have to "sleep with one eye open" and warned that he knew the registration number of the DTC's car.
Before that he had threatened CM reporter Mike Jewell in an effort to prevent a report on the case being published.
A previous hearing of the Transport Tribunal had overturned the DTC's decision to revoke the licence for a string of tacho offences committed by Gordon Crompton, ruling that David Crompton had no knowledge of the offences. But North Western TO Beverley Bell subsequently revoked his licence for a second time after his conduct at the previous public inquiry.
Appearing before the Transport Tribunal for David Crompton, John Parsons said that the loss of good repute for "losing one's cool" on one occasion was too drastic a sanction in the light of Crompton's previous good character and record as an operator. He pointed out that the incident, which was instigated by Gordon Crompton, did not involve any violence. David Crompton had apologised to Farr and he felt deep remorse. But the Tribunal rejected this arg ment, saying that in the light of the el dence the TC was entitled to find th David Crompton had used threats al abusive language towards a witness and member of the public. Bell was therefo further entitled to take a very serio view of that conduct.
Delaying the effect of its decision 15 three months, the Tribunal said the dec sion would drive home the seriousness the offence to David Crompton and gi, him a better understanding of what "go, repute" means. The delay would alla David Crompton to make a fresh applici tion for a licence, the Tribunal added.