Waste haulage firm stripped of 0-Licence
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Falsified statements and maintenance agreements result in revocation of a waste haulage company's 0-Licence.
AN IRVINE waste haulage business that falsified maintenance agreements, its bank statements and its 0-licence application has seen its licence revoked by the Scottish Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken.
James Kane Wilson admitted he was running the business, James Kane trading as JK Waste Management, on behalf of his brother-in-law, who is currently serving a four-year prison sentence for a firearms offence.
Confusingly, the jailed man is also called James Kane, and the 0-licence was held in his name.
The firm was also running out of an unauthorised operating centre, traffic examiner James Sweetin told the Edinburgh public inquiry.
The deception only came to light when Sweetin visited the operating centre, he revealed. Later checks with the maintenance contractor. John Rowan, revealed that he had no knowledge of James Kane, but was familiar with "Jimmy Wilson': Although Rowan's garage had an agreement with James K Wilson, no vehicles had ever been presented for safety inspection, and there were no records available.
When interviewed, Wilson explained he had signed the agreement as James Kane and not James K Wilson, Kane being his middle name, and to save him a trip to Kilmarnock Prison to get James Kane to sign it. He should have marked it as signed on his behalf.
He also admitted completing the company's 0-licence application form.
Shown bank statements with the name of James K Wilson, which had been altered with correction fluid and the name Mr J Kane overwritten,Wilson said he had no idea who had altered them. He subsequently laid the blame with administration staff.
Asked by the TC if he had falsified the application form by signing it as James Kane, Wilson said that his understanding was that anyone like himself who had a CPC could sign the form, although he had chosen not to use his own signature.