Layton's licence is cut
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• Blackpool-based Layton Plant Hire's licence has been cut from 10 vehicles and four trailers to the six vehicles and two trailers the company owns at a Manchester disciplinary inquiry.
DOT vehicle examiner Michael Dobson said one immediate and three delayed prohibitions had been imposed on vehicles operated by the company during roadside checks in February, None of the vehicles had current excise licences.
Company secretary and transport manager Alan Hazelhurst said the checks had been carried out near a tip. The company's vehicles were constantly running on to tips and tyre damage was inevitable, North Western Traffic Commissioner Martin Albu commented that other tipper operators did not to have the same problem.
Hazelhurst said the company had not operated the vehicles for most of 1992. They had not been taxed because of cashflow probNo tax—cashlems caused flow problems. by financial
difficulty of two large contractors for whom Layton was working. The company is still owed £46,000 which it is pursuing through the courts. Offences involving the unauthorised use of vehicles arose when the licence lapsed because it was late in applying to renew Cutting the licence, subject to seeing up to date accounts, Albu said that any further nonsense of that sort" would result in him taking the licence.