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A Lancashire skip hire operator has had the number of vehicles on the licence cut from four to one after he admitted that the operation of his licence had virtually been taken over by his father, whose own licence had been revoked.
Jason Briggs, trading as JB Skip Hire, of Bury appeared before North Western Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry.
Vehicle examiner Cohn Wadelove said that when asked about gaps in the company's inspection records, Briggs had said that some of them might have been lost and that his father, David Briggs, kept sending the vehicles out.
David Briggs' own licence, in the name of DW Briggs Land Properties, had been revoked in August 1996, and Jason Briggs was operating the same vehicles. Two of them were registered in the name of JB Skips and Services, and two in the name of OW Briggs Demolition.
PC David Newton of the Greater Manchester police, told the inquiry that he had stopped a heavily laden tipper in Bolton in September. The driver had said he was employed by David Briggs, not Jason Briggs, and produced receipt books in the name of Briggs Demolition and JB Skip Hire.
Newton had seized the 0licence disc, which was in the name of Jason Briggs. Company secretary Susan Briggs later admitted that the driver was employed by Briggs Demolition, and that that company did not hold an 0-licence.
The TC pointed out that financial information produced, which was unsatisfactory, was in the name of JB Skips and Services, Jason Briggs said that company had been granted a licence which was never taken up. He had continued with the licence in his own name but the finance was directed through the limited company The intention was to operate entirely independently from his father, but his father was a very strong and dominant character who began to make decisions about the operation of the licence. He agreed that he was not in total control at the moment but believed that his father was now applying for his own licence.
He agreed that he was running two of his father's vehicles on his licence for the purposes of his father's business.
Cutting the licence, and requiring an under
taking that David Briggs would take no part in the operation of the remaining vehicle, the TO gave Jason Briggs 28 days to produce copies of all the registration documents with details of who was insuring each vehicle.