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RHA to oppose Bulmans bid?

10th November 1994
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• The Road Haulage Association is this week considering whether to appeal against a Licensing Authority's decision to allow two ex-prisoners to re-open their Cumbrian haulage businesses.

At a public inquiry last week, North Western LA Martin Albu granted five-year Operators Licences for Penrith-based Bulmans Bulk & Haulage and Bulmans (Penrith).

Albu said that previous tachograph offences should no longer count against the repute of the companies' principal directors, Peter Housby and David Brown.

Housby and Brown were jailed in May 1993 for 12 months by Carlisle Crown Court for aiding and abetting drivers to falsify tachograph charts. They were also each fined £2,750 and ordered to pay £ 1,000 prosecution costs.

Eighteen months earlier Bulmans Bulk was fined £9,000 for similar offences, with the judge calling the offences "peaks of a very extensive iceberg of crime".

17 Cumbrian police, which joined the RI-IA in objecting to the applications, says it will not appeal. At the public inquiry, Sergeant Howard Routledge said that after the second court appearance "the road haulage industry in Carlisle sat up and noticed". lithe licences were granted, that would no longer be the case, he said.


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