Refusal loses 0-licence
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A REFUSAL to co-operate with vehicle examiners has led to the revocation of a licence of Manchester haulier Arthur Jennings.
Mr Jennings, who held a licence for two vehicles, had been called before North Western Licensing Authority Roy Hutchings.
Vehicle examiner Roy Barnes said he had made three separate appointments with Mr Jennings to see his vehicles but Mr Jennings had failed to honour any of them. Mr Jennings had even failed to keep an appointment he had arranged himself.
He had visited Mr Jennings' home and had spoken to his wife, who claimed that she did not know her husband's whereabouts, but he suspected that he was still living at that address.
Other vehicle examiners had the same difficulties in the past and he had been unable to confirm the declared operating centre at Great Ancoats Street. No one in that area had any knowledge of Mr Jennings.
Questioned by the LA, Mr Barnes said that a vehicle examiner had managed to carry out a check in April 1983 when immediate and delayed prohibitions were placed on a vehicle and a trailer. The second vehicle was said to be off the road at that time. The then operating centre had been in Barton Dock Road, but recent enquiries had revealed that Mr Jennings was no longer known there.
Mr Jennings failed to appear at the public inquiry and Mr Hutchings said that he had no hesitation in revoking the licence in view of the doubts about the whereabouts of the operating centre and Mr Jennings' refusal to co-operate with the vehicle examiners.