Operator did not advertise change of base
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Helga Farley of Upton on Severn
111 WORCESTERSHIRE haulier Helga Farley, said to have experienced a "chapter of accidents" after passing the examination to obtain a Certificate of Professional Competence. has been granted interim authority to change her operating centre, by West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh,
For Mrs Farley, of Upton on Severn, Norman Carless said that she had not initially realised that the change of operating centre had to be advertised. When that requirement was pointed out to her, the application was wrongly advertised as a renewal and not as a variation It had now been readvertised, and they were asking for an interim licence pending the completion of the 28-day objection period and publication of the application in As & Ds.
After Mrs Farley had been granted a licence, she ordered a vehicle on the basis of traffic she was hoping to obtain but which did not materialise, said Carless. She had not replied to traffic area letters because she did not have a vehicle.
Eventually she acquired some traffic and obtained an older vehicle than was originally intended, said Carless. Mrs Farley never received a fee request. She operated the vehicle for 10 days as she mistakenly thought she had time within which to to specify it.
Nine days later retribution struck said Carless, in that the vehicle broke down. She had also had to change the commercial garage undertaking the maintenance as the original garage doing the work had gone bankrupt.
Questioned by the LA, Mrs Farley said that her family had been involved in haulage for a number of years. Many things had changed over the years.
The LA emphasised the importance that was now placed on the maintenance of vehicles. He said that the name of Farley was "etched on the walls" of the traffic area building, Mrs Parley's husband having appeared at public inquiry before each of his three predecessors.
Questioned further, Mrs Farley said that she would be employing her husband as a driver. She was aware that she had to be the boss.
Granting the interim licence, Mervyn Pugh said that he had to be satisfied at all times that Mrs Farley was not a "front" for her husband.