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International licence refused
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• A company's bid for an international licence has been refused, because one of its directors was previously managing director of a firm convicted of unauthorised use of permits and using permits with intent to deceive.
Finecall director Vernon George was convicted of forging a permit and driving excessive hours when he was managing director of Xercon Industries in June 1986. The firm had its operators licence revoked following convictions for using permits with intent to deceive, using vehicles without excise licences and permitting drivers' hours offences.
George said that following the 1986 public inquiry he had come to an agreement with David Taylor, of Ribchester, for the virtual take-over of the transport side of his business by Xercon. The intention had been to set up a separate company, but because of technical errors it did not stand up on paper. He said that had his intention been to misuse permits and operate without a licence, he could easily have done so without coming to the arrangement with Taylor.
George agreed that he had carried on operating after the revocation of the Xercon licence. He said that operation had been under Taylor's licence and the vehicle had been hired to Taylor for 30 days. The businesses had been merged, so there had been no problem over the transfer of the permits and the Xercon vehicles had ultimately been put on the Taylor licence. The court had found them guilty in February, purely on a technicality. The intention had been to merge with a company that had had permits, but George had paid the drivers, and had been found guilty of operating without an '0' licence, under the name of Xercon.
Refusing the application, Kenneth Birchall said that 10 months after losing its licence on grounds of repute, Xercon had been found to be operating without authority.