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TC considers truck return
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A former Manchester haulier has to wait to see whether two trucks impounded by the Vehicle Inspectorate will be returned to him. Stretford-based James Brandrett, trading as J&J Asphalt, had sought the return of the vehicles before the North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Patrick Mulvenna sitting at St Helens.
Traffic examiner Robert Williams said that in December 2002, a vehicle examiner had seen the vehicle leaded with fence posts parked on a double yellow line in Shaw, Lancashire. The vehicle was given an immediate prohibition for a missing fuel cap. No 0-licence identity disc was displayed and enquiries revealed that an 0-licence held by Brandrett had expired in the summer of 2001.
Williams said he had observed two vehicles, painted in the livery of J&J Asphalt and carrying road repair materials, on a number of occasions during January. Both vehicles were impounded on 17 January.
Brandrett said that he had held a CPC for 25-30 years and he was under the impression he did not require an 0-licence to carry his own materials, which he did on behalf of
Rochdale Borough Council He was in the process of applying for a restricted 0-licence but it had not been submitted as yet because of an error made in the newspaper advert, but he accepted that he was told that he needed an 0-licence in December. He had obtained his CPC through grandfather rights and riot by examination, he said.
In order to buy the trucks he had taken out a £9,500 loan that he still had to make payments en, said Brandrett, and without the vehicles he could not work. The company had two contracts. one with Rochdale Council and the other with the Electricity Board, and was hiring a vehicle at present to service these, which was proving expensive.
Brandrett agreed that he had continued to operate the trucks in the knowledge that he needed an 0-licence and that he did not have one. He said he had been waiting for the licence application form. "I realise that was a mistake new," said Brandrett.
The DTC is to announce his decision in writing at an unspecified future date.