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Contract confusion leads to court for Seville Tank

14th February 1987
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• No action was taken against the licence of C C Seville Tank Transport, of Salford, when it appeared at disciplinary proceedings before North Western Licensing Authority Roy Hutchings.

Action had been considered against the company's sixvehicle and six-trailer international licence following convictions for unauthorised use and using a vehicle when a higher rate of duty was payable.

Managing director Alan Seville said it had not been a case of operating vehicles without a licence at all, but one of the use of a vehicle outside the margin of the company's licence.

The other offence arose when a vehicle taxed at the special rate for trailers with a three-axle configuration was used, without his knowledge, by a contract customer to haul a two-axle trailer.

Maintaining that he had always operated with integrity and honesty, Seville said that huge losses, following a decision to expand led him to sell out to another company at the beginning of 1984. He was given a service contract to act as transport manager.

It turned out that the only reason for the buyout was that that company was involved in the largest-ever case involving road transport, ultimately being fined £70,000. When he realised that he resigned. In a period of six months he had lost everything. He had dedicated his life to haulage and he had re-applied for a licence, though he now felt that he would have been better staying out.

Taking no action, Hutchings said he accepted the explanations given.

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Locations: Salford

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