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Six-month disqualification for wholesaler
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A COMPANY with -scant regard for the law" has had its licence revoked and its director disqualified as a result of numerous offences, including using more trucks than its licence authorised, failure to control its drivers and receiving multiple prohibitions.
The licence held by Birminghambased Mr Meats Wholesale was revoked by West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Lester Maddrell from the end of April and the company and its director Amin Hussain disqualified from holding an 0-licence for six months.
Last May the Deputy TC cut the company's restricted licence from five vehicles to four after being given assurances about vehicle maintenance ('Licence cut for restricted licence holder with 'elderly' vehicles', CM 7 June 2007).
Vehicle examiner Adrian rlhomas said inspection periods had become over-extended. Drivers were either not inspecting their vehicles or reporting faults. Three prohibitions had been issued since the last public inquiry and it had operated five vehicles for several months.
Hussain said the drivers did conduct daily checks but they could not check undersides for hygiene
reasons because they delivered fresh meat. He denied the firm had used more than four vehicles. He accepted that one vehicle had once gone seven weeks between inspections because the garage was too busy. He claimed other vehicles had gone for longer than six weeks between inspections because they were off the road.
The DTC said he found the firm had used five vehicles when it was authorised for only four in direct defiance of the curtailment direction given at the previous public inquiry. It had scant regard for the law and for its obligations as a goods vehicle operator and had not shown the requisite ability or willingness to learn and to implement what it had learned.