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Haulier 'unfit' to hold licence
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A County Durham haulier apparently caught running on kerosene and in possession of a host of blank and forged paperwork has lost his bid for an Operator's Licence.
North-Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney refused the application by Chester-Le-Street based Diehard Alan Grossman, branding him untrustworthy and unfit to be in a professional transport industry.
Grossman, trading as Zoemick Commercials, whose licence application was opposed by Northumbria Police, failed to attend the Leeds public inquiry.
Holding that he was unfit to hold a licence, Macartney said that he had failed to disclose a criminal conviction in his application, full details of which were still withheld despite a specific request from the Traffic Area Office. It appeared that Grossman had been operating without authority; using kerosene in vehicles which resulted in Customs and Excise seizing seven of them; and had been in possession of blank driving licences, a blank MoT test certificate, forged operator's licence discs, forged Green Card insurance, and false accounts. He was also alleged to have evaded paying VAT of over £500,000.
The TG said that while Grossman had criminal convictions which were not spent, a licence application was unlikely to be granted. He could, of course, re-apply at any time, but the serious, multiple criminal issues relating directly to operator licensing made it probable that any future application had poor chances of success, unless there was some clear evidence of radical reform over a protracted period.
He directed that Grossman be warned that the unauthorised use of goods vehicles could result in impounding.
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Nt.) Macartney; Refused application.