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Multi-tasking manager safe to carry on
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CONCERNS OVER three firms using the same transport manager have led to the revocation of one 0-licence, but no action taken against the other two.
Associated concerns H-Pac Services and H-Pac Plant & Transport, and a third operator, Triangle Trading, all based in Birmingham, had been called before Lester Maddrell, West Midlands Deputy Traffic Commissioner.
He was concerned that David Hatfield, the nominated transport manager on all three licences, had taken on too much.
Hatfield was also on the licence of Trident Continental Transport in the South-Eastern & Metropolitan Traffic Area. No-one represented Triangle Trading, which is no longer operational.
hi April, the North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell refused an application for an 0-licence by Ziggy Norris International Haulage — one of the grounds being that she considered Hatfield had lent his name to that application.
Hatfield said that the director of Ziggy Norris, Ewan MacDonald, had messed that company's application up.
Trevor Kent, a director of H-Pac, said they never had any problems with Hatfield.
Hatfield revealed that he worked four days a week for Trident Continental in the traffic office, but no longer in the role of transport manager.
Trident's head office was in London, but it was run from Coventry, where there were workshop facilities.
He worked two days a week as the transport manager for the transport manager for Triangle Trading as a favour on a temporary basis, while they recruited another transport manager. He now had nothing to do with the company, having resigned in March.
Taking no action against the H-Pae 0-licences, the DTC said he was satisfied that they met the professional competence requirement and that Hatfield had retained his repute as a transport manager.
Revoking the Triangle Trading 0-licence, he said the firm did not have a qualified transport manager for nearly six months.