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Deal-breaker is disqualified
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Wife loses application after husband's involvement revealed. Mike Jewell reports.
A DISGRACED HAULIER, who was jailed for fuel smuggling, falsified tachograph charts at his wife's new firm despite having promised to have nothing to do with it,a Public Inquiry heard.
Anthony Long. who was imprisoned in 1999 for smuggling fuel from the Irish Republic, ran AJ Long Transport which lost its licence when he was jailed. Transfreight Services was formed to take over that company's work, but in July 2000 the Traffic Commissioner revoked its licence for tacho offences.
Hawthorne Trading Transport Services was then formed by Long's wife Kathleen, who gave an undertaking that Anthony would have nothing to do with its running or he employed as a driver. Hawthorne had been called before the North Western TC Beverley Bell.The company,which was operating 11 vehicles and 11 trailers under interim authority, was seeking a new licence for the same number of vehicles and trailers. The TC was also considering the repute of the company's transport manager Margaret Maloney, The TC was told that drivers were found to have falsified tacho records. A number of tachograph records had been found bearing the name Long. or Anthony Long had masqueraded as Kathleen's brother.
Analysis revealed 15 of the 16 charts where her brother appeared were created by the same person that had created 42 charts in the names of Long. Longworth and Longmorc.
Kathleen Long admitted to the TC that it was her husband who had falsified those tachograph records. For the company, Anthony Ostrin said Anthony Long had nothing to do with the running or organisation of the business. Mrs Long had employed and instructed Long to drive when she had been desperate.
The TC revoked the interim licence, refused the substantive licence application, and disqualified the company and Kathleen Long from holding a licence in any Traffic Area for 15 years. Bell said she was satisfied that Mrs Long had significantly failed to comply with the majority of the undertakings given, the most significant being in relation to her husband's involvement in the business.
She adds:"Those promises were meaningless and empty. There a disregard of the licensing system." The TC held that Margaret Maloney had lost her repute as a transport manager.