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Licence lost over covert ops
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The Operator's Lcence held by Essex-based Brooks Transport has been revoked and boss Alan Brooks disqualified from holding or obtaining an 0licence in any Traffic Area indefinitely after he declined to give evidence at a public inquiry.
Brooks denied any connection with a firm called H Mapplebeck & Sons, yet a company search indicated that he was listed as both director and company secretary. Mapplebeck held an international licence with no vehicles specified upon it, yet three associated vehicles had travelled regularly to the Continent without displaying 0-licence discs.
When stopped, the driver of one truck said that his employer was Mapplebeck, desplte the registered keeper of that vehicle being Brooks Transport.
The other two vehicles were registered in the name of Paul Giles, who trades as PKG Haulage, and the driver of one had said he was employed by Giles but produced a community authorisation in the name of Mapplebeck.
Giles said he neither owned that vehicle nor employed the driver, but that he had agreed to insure it for Brooks in exchange for a rent-free
period at the operating centre.
He denied that it was his signature on the DVLA registration form or that he had ever carried out work which Tibbet & Britten stated it had contracted out to Alan Brooks.
When interviewed by a traffic examiner, Brooks became extremely aggressive and abusive, using foul language.
Appearing for Brooks,
James Duckworth said that h would not be giving any ev dence and that he declined t answer any questions.
Making the revocation an disqualification orders, th South Eastern & Metropolita Traffic Commissioner ChriE topher Heaps said that th onus was on Brooks to satisf him that disciplinary actio was inappropriate. In th absence of any explanation: he found that Brooks had lie when he denied any connec tion with Mapplebeck.
The TO concluded that h had been using vehicles whic were not specified on hi licence and had attempted t hide his unauthorised activitie by reference to the licence held by Mapplebeck and Gile; He found that Brooks had bee aggressive and abusive to member of the Vehicl Inspectorate and that suc behaviour touched on his fri ness to hold a licence.