Company refused licence
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A HAULIER's bid to be issued with a replacement operator's licence, after losing its previous one at a Transport Tribunal, failed this week.
North Killing holme, Lincolnshire-based Greatrange applied to East Midlands Licensing Authority for a new international licence for six vehicles and six trailers. Its previous licence was revoked on maintenance grounds (CM, November 19, 1983). The tribunal was told that the director responsible for maintenance Malcolm Dinsdale had since left the company.
Philip Webster, a director, denied that the company had been using its vehicles since the revocation saying that they had been hired out to RV Transport, of Louth.
Midlands LA Kenneth Peter said he had a statement from the proprietor of RV Transport, Rosalind Slade, that she had never leased vehicles from Greatrange.
Refusing the application, Mr Peter, who sat with a Department of Transport assessor said the company was neither fit to hold a licence nor was of good repute. He took account of a conviction for witholding material information from an insurance company and that records at Company's House still showed Mr Dinsdale as a director.
He was obviously not fit to hold a licence and no attempt had been made to remove him. He did not accept Mr Webster's explanation in connection with a maintenance agreement with a commercial garage that turned out to be misleading.
He was not satisfied of the likelihood of good maintenance or that there were adequate facilities and arrangements for maintenance. Nor was he satisfied that the operating centre was suitable.