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Welsh operator escapes with warning
A WELSH international haulier has escaped with a warning for using secure parking areas in Kent and Staffordshire without authority. He was granted authority to legitimise the operation after Deputy Traffic Commissioner Lester Maddrell was satisfied he was not a rogue operator trying to get around the licensing system.
The DTC was considering action against the Welsh Traffic Area licence for 10 vehicles and 10 trailers held by Peter Harding, trading as Peter Harding Freight International of Haverfordwest.
He was also considering applications by Harding for licences in the West Midland Traffic Area for four vehicles and four trailers, and in the SouthEastern & Metropolitan Traffic Area for three vehicles and three trailers.
Harding gave an undertaking in June 2006 that if he needed to base vehicles outside of Wales, he would apply for licences in the Traffic Areas concerned.
A traffic examiner reported that in August 2007, vehicles had continued to be used at Erith and Tamworth and only occasionally returned to Wales.
Harding said that in 2006 they had lost 95% of a contract worth Lim to an Estonian haulier who did not need to have an operating centre in the UK. Consequently, there was no need to park at Frith and Tamworth until August 2007, when the workload increased.
They carried high-value loads and Erith and Tamworth were secure parking areas.
In reply to the DTC, Harding said that vehicles had begun regularly parking at Erith and Tamworth five or six months before the traffic examiner's visit. His intention was to run only 10 vehicles and 10 trailers. Routine maintenance would be carried out at Haverfordwest. The vehicles would only be at Erith and Tamworth overnight.
Granting the applications and taking no action against the Welsh licence other than to issue a warning, the DTC required an undertaking that not more than 10 vehicles and 10 trailers be operated at any one time.