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Kent firm told it is 'unfit' to hold Operator's Licence
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A Kent-based firm has lost its bid for a licence after the South Eastern 8i, Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner ruled that it was unfit to hold one.
Ashford firm Gillman & Co appeared before Christopher Heaps where the TC also revoked a licence held by the company secretary Nigel Gillman, trading as Gillman European Transport, and disqualified him from holding an 0-licence indefinitely.
The sole director of the company is Gillman's wife, Sally-Ann, who was seeking a licence for two vehicles and two trailers. Previously, she had been a director of Hi-Kube Transport, whose licence for six vehicles and six trailers was revoked in June 2000. That decision was subsequently upheld on appeal by the Transport Tribunal. (CM 1-7 February, 2001.) A previous licence held by Mr Gillman was revoked in May 1997 because of drivers' hours and tachograph problems, and he was disqualified from holding an 0-licence for two years.
He was granted a fresh licence in 2000. Consideration of disciplinary action against that licence had been adjourned In December for the production of further financial information.
For both the company and Mr Gillman, Jim Duckworth conceded that Gillman European Transport had not been operated by Mr Gillman alone but had been an equal partnership between him and his wife.
The TC said that the revocation of the Hi-Kube Transport licence had been founded on Mrs Gillman's failure, deliber
ately or recklessly, to comple. the application form correct There was now evidence th. she had also been a party to incorrect application submittE by her husband for the licenc granted in 2000. He held that tt situation with Hi-Kube and tr possible problems with tr 2000 application made her unl to hold a licence.
In making the revocation ar disqualification orders relatir to Mr Gillman, the TC held thi he had lost his repute, had faile to fulfil undertakings recorde on the licence and that a fals statement had been made order to obtain the licence.