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Revoked operator to give evidence against friend
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An operator who made his licence available to a friend has escaped disqualification after agreeing to assist Vosa. Mike Jewell reports.
POULTON-LE-FYLDE,Lancs-based operator John Morris, trading as the Morris Moving Co, has had his three-vehicle international licence revoked from the end of August by North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell. But he escaped disqualification after agreeing to give evidence in the Vosa prosecution of an associate company.
Morris had allowed his licence to he used by Blackpool-based Barry Clark, trading as Clark & Son, after Bell had revoked Clark's licence and one of his vehicles was impounded.
At an earlier hearing she had given Clark's son Michael clear advice about how to apply for an 0-licence.That advice had been ignored and Barry and Michael Clark continued to operate vehicles without a licence.
That led to a vehicle being impounded and applications bra fresh licence being refused.
Expired licence disc
Traffic examiner Timothy Parker said a vehicle in the livery of Clark Sz. Sons Removals had been stopped in September 2005. It was displaying an expired 0-licence disc in the name of Barry Clark.
The Clarks claimed the vehicle was being operated under Morris's licence. When Parker contacted Morris he was told that that vehicle was not specified on his licence but that another vehicle belonging to the Clarks was. When Parker explained to Morris that it was not legally possible to specify another person's vehicle on his 0-licence, Morris said he would remove it from the licence that day.
In October, a vehicle in the livery of Hargreaves International Removers was found to be displaying an 0-licence disc belonging to Morris although us registered keeper was Barry Clark.
No financial reward
Morris told Parker he had asked his wife to remove the two Clark vehicles specified on his licence but in error she had only removed one.
He said he had allowed the Clark family to use his licence as a favour and had received no financial reward.
Morris told the TC that Barry Clark had asked him if he could specify some vehicles on his licence because he had had some problems. He did not know that what he was doing was illegal at the time.
When he asked his wife to remove the vehicles from the licence he had not asked for the discs to be returned to him. He had given a witness statement and was prepared to give evidence against Michael Clark at his impending trial. is