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Operator ran four trucks on a one-truck licence
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Licence suspended for two weeks after Deputy Traffic Commissioner says she will not tolerate such blatant breaches of authority.
A DONCASTER operator has had his licence suspended for two weeks after he admitted illegally operating up to four vehicles on a onevehicle licence since January.
David I .ister, trading as BL Transport, had been called before North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Elizabeth Perrett at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry.
Traffic examiner Stephen Foster told the inquiry that in June he received a report from a fellow examiner that a vehicle belonging to Lister which had been checked was not authorised on the licence. This was confirmed by Lister's tachograph records.
Lister had said he had taken an opportunity to expand and had applied for a variation in January. Following that application he wrongly believed he held an authorisation for five vehicles and five trailers and admitted he was then running four vehicles and four trailers.
He explained that he had found space too tight at his original operating centre so last autumn he acquired another site and spent £16.500 developing it.
Moving forward
From November last year the business had seemed to be moving forward all the time. He then had three vehicles in possession, having acquired two more in October and December.
In reply to the DTC. Lister agreed that in November 2004 he had applied to change his operating centre and increase his licence authorisation to four vehicles and two trailers. That application had been refused because of insufficient finance. He agreed that he had made a further application at the end of January this year.
The DTC said there had been no reply to requests for further information following the January application so Lister's existing onevehicle licence had been revoked.
That decision was subsequently rescinded following a letter from Lister.
Questioned further, Lister said he had carried on working with three vehicles as he thought authority had been granted.
The DTC pointed out that when the interim licence was refused in February Lister had been warned that he could only operate one vehicle. That warning had been repeated in April.
Interim authority
Lister said he had since made another application for interim authority. He agreed that he had known in July that he was only licensed for one vehicle and one trailer after the revocation had been lifted.
The DTC said Lister had openly operated more than one vehicle between January and July when he knew he did not have the authority to do so and she would not tolerate such blatant breaches.
On the credit side, there were no glaring maintenance issues and the traffic examiner had found no problem with the firm's tachograph records. •