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Heaton wins an international
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• The wife of James Heaton, who lost his 0Licence because of vehicle excise duty offences when trading as Viking Transport in 1987, has succeeded in obtaining a licence in her own name after telling North Western LA Martin Albu that she would be working for Curries of Dumfries on international haulage.
Barbara Ann Heaton, of Croston Road, Farrington Moss, Preston, had applied for an international licence for four vehicles and trailers, based at Victoria Industrial Estate, Old Choi-ley Road, Standish.
Mrs Heaton said she had been granted interim authority for two vehicles and had started to trade. She would be managing and running the business herself, and would lease the tractive units from a vehicle leasing business run by her husband. They would be taxed, tested and maintained by her husband. The trailers would be Curries' and it would undertake their maintenance. Curries would provide the diesel and give the drivers their instructions. Her husband had no connection with the business, apart from leasing her the vehicles.
She admitted she had been a partner in Viking Transport and a director of Viking Transport (UK). The latter company had been struck off after it ceased trading.
She had not been a shareholder of Viking Transport (UK) and had not had any financial interest in that company. She had been involved in name only in Barbara Ann Heaton Ltd, a vehicle leasing company which had gone into liquidation following the liquidation of its main customer.
Albu said he was concerned that Mrs Heaton was involved in the present business in name only. Denying this, Mrs Heaton said she had negotiated the contract with Curries. She had previously applied for a licence last October in partnership with Deborah Ward, but that application was withdrawn when Ward decided she did not want to proceed. (CM 2-8 and 9-15 November 1989).
Questioned about an alleged outstanding debt relating to Viking, Mrs Heaton denied there was a debt, saying that the finance company had made a refinancing arrangement and the debt should have been discharged.
After seeing projected financial figures and a letter from Mrs Heaton's bankers, Albu said there was not a great deal of capital involved in setting the operation up, but asked where the capital was coming from. John Backhouse, replying for Mrs Heaton, said through the sale of a motor car and the remortgaging of the house the Heatons lived in, which she owned. He assured the LA that the vehicles were insured and taxed at the full rate.
Granting a licence for the full five years, Albu said he had some concern that the maintenance and vehicle taxation responsibility rested with Mr Heaton, who in the past had experienced financial problems. Mrs Heaton must realise that she was ultimately responsible for the condition of the vehicles and for seeing that they were taxed at the appropriate rate.