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Licence request thrown out
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tangle of misleading information fails to protect an operator without )n 0-licence, and its request for one is denied.
SKIP-HIRE FIRM which ran illegally for ears because it claimed it could not afford an )-licence has been declared unlit to operate. second skip-hire operator, on whose licence had claimed its vehicle was operating, has scaped with a warning.
Brian Walters, trading as Delta Skip Hire, of Vallasey, had applied to north-western Deputy 'C Mark Hinchliffe (above), for a two-vehicle cence. Rejecting the application, the DTC Is° considered action against the two-vehicle cence held by Bernard and Karen Campbell. ading as Dial A Skip, of Rock Ferry.
Senior vehicle examiner David Collings said maintenance investigation was carried out foliwingthe issue of three prohibitions to a Delta kip Hire vehicle — in all three cases the Dial A kip 0-licence number had been quoted.
Dial A Skip's Bernard Campbell said he had °thing to do with that vehicle. As a result imounding procedures were started and it was !,vealed that it was on finance.
Although the vehicle was leased to Walters, le finance company said it had a letter from ernard Campbell which stated that he was aiming Walters to operate under his 0-licence. iowever, the vehicle was not specified on the Dial A Skip licence. Maintaining that Walters' vehicle had nothing to do with him, Campbell said Walters had driven for him in 2000. He now recognised that this letter to the finance company looked bad. but it was not the reply he had meant to give.
Vehicle examiner Roger Byrom agreed that the only prohibition issued to a vehicle specified on the Dial A Skip licence was one he issued during the maintenance investigation in June.
No 0-licence
Walters agreed with Campbell that the vehicle had nothing to do with him and it had never had an 0-licence disc in the window. He did not know how Campbell's name and licence number had been given to the examiners when the vehicle was prohibited.
Walters accepted that he had been operating the vehicle without an 0-licence since October 2000, saying he did not have the funds at the time to meet the regulations.
Warning Campbell not to use his 0-licence inappropriately, the DTC said that if a fraudulent disc had been used in the windscreen of the vehicle, that did not incriminate Campbell. But the wording of the letter from Campbell to th finance company was regrettable and was cal culated to mislead.
Refusing Walters' application on the ground that he was unfit to hold a licence, the DTC salt he had operated without a licence for years. •