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CarTrans boss wins back his operator's licence

11th August 2005
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A CAR TRANSPORTER boss who was jailed after one of his trucks knocked down and killed a pedestrian has succeeded in convincing the Traffic Commissioner he can be trusted with a new 0-licence.

But Paul Duckmanton has been warned by TC Tom Macartney that it will be revoked "on the slightest excuse" if he believes CarTrans has transgressed. A Leeds public inquiry heard Duckmanton spen t 60days in prison for perverting the course of justice after he admitted falsifying maintenance records before and after a fatal accident in Southampton (CM 7 October2004).The drive r, Mic hae I Roberts, mounted a pavement and hit 78-year-old Joyce McVey when his brakes failed. Duckmanton subsequently lost his 0-licence.

For Duckmanton, Paul Carless said: "It's cost this man an experience that would shatter many men. He's been to prison; he has legal costs of £500,000 and has had personal problems. It has deterred him frornever doing anything again to put him in that position."

The inquiry heard Duckmanton implemented better systems in his business to ensure his firm remained within the law.

Macartney asked Duckmanton to imagine the chief executive of road safety charity Brake and a relative of McVey were sat opposite him and convince me that you are going to be perfect, squeaky clean for the rest of your career".

Summing up, the TC said: -You are on a knife-edge. If 1 have any inkling there's something wrong with your company, particularly with documentation, I will take your licence away."


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