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West Midland Traffic Commissioner David Dixon has returned an
operator's licence so that its trucks can return from the Continent and deliver their loads before the firm goes into voluntary liquidation.
Blessgold, trading as MJM Freight Services, had its 30vehicle/3D-trailer licence suspended when the Redditch, Worcs-based company failed to appear at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry at the end of January
Dixon said that Blessgold had been called to a public inquiry over a number of issues, including convictions for operating untaxed vehicles. It seemed that the company also had a number of other vehicles which were not taxed. There was quite a history of public inquiry appearances over the years.
Fie had asked the company to produce financial evidence at the public inquiry and it had been invited to make written representations. It had done neither of these things.
Five days after the suspension managing director Roger Marriott appeared before the TO to ask for the suspension to be lifted. Marriott said he had missed the inquiry because he had been in London visiting his mother, who was ill.
He asked Dixon to reinstate the licence until the liquidator took control on 9 February: 22 of the 26 vehicles currently in possession were abroad, but they were all due home by 7 February.
He admitted that he had a 10vehicle licence in his own name, adding that he might continue in the business.
After the IC warned that he would not be happy if any of the Blessgold vehicles appeared on Marriott's own licence, Marriott gave an undertaking that this would not happen for at least three months. Dixon cut the licence to 22 vehicles and lifted • the suspension until midnight on 7 February.