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'No' after string of offences
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TC refuses operator who fails to impress with his "dishonest, evasive and difficult' interview at public inquiry.
AN OPERATOR branded"dishonest, evasive and difficult" has been refused a licence for six vehicles and two trailers after an inquiry considered a series of offences stretching back to April last year.
Graeme Needham, the sole director of Morecambe-based Chas Edmondson Removals, appeared before North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell. She decided that Needham was dishonest, evasive and difficult and remarked that his assurances could not be relied upon.
Needham was a joint shareholder in Chas Edmondson Removals with his brothers Nigel and Christopher.
Licence revoked In January 2001 the pair were directors of Fowlers Depositories (Morecambe & Heysham ).Their licence was revoked because of red diesel and tachograph offences and they were disqualified from holding an 0-licence for six years. InApril of that year an application for a licence by Limtearn. trading as Fowlers of Morecambe. was refused: this company was said to have taken over Fowlers' business.
Traffic examiner Keith Henry said that when a vehicle driven by Needham was impounded in May he claimed it was being used by Total Haulage (Northern Ireland). But the company denied this.
Henry said he had information that a different Irish company,McNeeTransport, had contracted the work to Fowlers of Morecambe.
Senior traffic examiner Mark Parish said but Needham had that, last November, a Northern Irish vehicle driven by Needham was checked on the M65.
It was displaying a licence disc in the name of O'Connor said it was owned by McNee Transport and that he was em ployed by Lim team, Other offences by Needham included convictions for using a vehicle with a defec tive speed limiter in April and August 2003. He had only declared the August conviction in the licence application form because, he claimed, he had forgotten about the April conviction.
In August he was convicted of using a vehicle in contravention of the community authorisation regulations. He said he had believed that authorisation for that vehicle had been granted. Needham claimed he was unaware of two convictions against his current company, Chas Edmondson Removals, for using a vehicle without an 0-licence at Kendal in May 2001.
Needham said he was currently driving for Limteam, He had bought a vehicle, which was not yet on the road and had taxed it from July. The TC replied that DVLA records showed it had been taxed since April, indicating that he was intending to use the truck from that point.