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Katherine Oliver may face disqualification
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KATHERINEOLIVER,wifeof disgraced haulier Stuart Oliver. faces possible disqualification from holding an 0-licence, along with her partners in Hexhambased JW Swan & Partners.
The threat of disqualification follows the unauthorised use of a vehicle after JW Swan's licence was revoked in December 2007 (`Stuart Oliver's wife has her licence revoked', CM 17 January 2008).
Stuart Oliver was one of two partners in William Martin Oliver & Partners given prison sentences for conspiracy to falsify tachograph records (Two Oliver bosses are jailed', CM 24 March 2005).
In December, North-Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell revoked the licence for two vehicles and two trailers held by John and Elsie Swan and Katharine Swan Oliver, trading as JW Swan & Partners.
The TC ruled that the licence had been used for the sole purpose of allowing vehicles that were previously operated by the Oliver partnership to continue operation, a decision that is under appeal to the Transport Tribunal.
Days after the revocation, the TC saw a tanker belonging to Kilfrost, one of Oliver's major customers, on the M6 on 23 December 2007. She reported it to Vosa.
The registered keeper of the vehicle was the Swan partnership until February, and until March it was insured by the Swan partnership. However, the vehicle was on a finance agreement with Stuart Oliver and enquiries to Katharine Oliver had met with prevarication.
Katharine Oliver denied that the vehicle concerned had been owned or operated by the Swan partnership, adding that Kilfrost was not a customer. She thought that her husband had arranged the Swan partnership insurance but said that she had never been involved with the Oliver partnership in any way. Yet again, she added, she was being made a scapegoat for someone else's actions.
Elsie Swan, however, said the vehicle had been used to replace an existing vehicle and when the licence was revoked, Katharine Oliver had asked her to get rid of it.
The TC is to announce her decision in writing at a future date.