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Stuart Oliver's wife has her licence revoked
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Firm found to be continuing activities of operator's fraudster husband;
DTC slams Vosa for failing to train its own staff. Mike Jewell reports.
A FIRM set up to carry on some of the activities of disgraced haulier Stuart Oliver has had its licence revoked by North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell.
Hexham-based John and Elsie Swan and their daughter Katharine Swan Oliver, trading as JW Swan & Partners, held a licence for two vehicles and two trailers. Katharine Oliver is the wife of Stuart Oliver, whose licence had been revoked in 2005.
He was one of two partners at William Martin Oliver & Partners to be jailed for conspiracy to falsify tachograph records. He was sentenced to 18 months and his father Martin received a nine-month prison term (CM 24 March 2005. Two Oliver bosses are jailed').
Traffic examiner Susan Barratt told the DTC that an analysis of tachograph charts for one Swan vehicle showed no apparent offences.But she had been unable to complete a full analysis of the drivers' hours record for both vehicles, as she had not been supplied with the digital tachograph raw data for the other one.
Barratt added that she had not yet completed her digitach training, leading Bell to remark that she sometimes felt her position as DTC was compromised by the failure of Vosa to ensure that staff were properly trained.
She was appalled by the fact that traffic examiners were unable to do their job properly inrelation to digital tachographs because of a lack of training. Traffic examiner Anusa Bainbridge said Elsie Swan had said that their daughter had tried to keep the Oliver business going while William and Stuart Oliver were in prison.
Victimised
Katharine Oliver said the vehicles supported the warehouse operation which was a remnant of the Oliver operation. She had felt aggrieved by the Vosa investigation, and believed she was being victimised.Although she had had nothing to do with the Oliver partnership, she felt guilty by association. She now wanted to build a fresh relationship with Vosa.
On the second day of the hearing James Backhouse, for the partners, conceded that the partnership trading accounts and bank accounts had not been used for the operation of the two authorised vehicles. Revoking the licence, th DTC said she was satisfied that it had not bee used for the purpose for which it was grantec Instead, it had been used for the sole purpos of allowing vehicles that had previously bee operated by the Oliver's partnership to cot tinue in operation.
She was also satisfied that Katharine Olive had played a major part in this process, and thE her mother had facilitated the anangement.
Bell concluded she would he sending a cop of her decision to the chief executive of Vosa.
• An attempt by Katharine Oliver's husban Stuart Oliver to overturn his indefinite db qualification from holding or obtaining a 0-licence in anyTraffic Area has been droppe (CM 27 September 2007, 'Jailed haulage fin boss makes a bid to return').•