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Non-compliance condemns operator
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KEIGHLEY-BASED Munir Hussain. trading as Alquasim Poultry has lost his appeal against the revocation of his three-vehicle licence by the North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney.
At a public inquiry in July, the TC was told that there had been unsatisfactory maintenance investigations in 1997, 2004, 2005 and in February 2008. There had been a 100% failure rate at annual test since a previous public inquiry in 2005. No safety inspections had been carried out since 2007 because of lack of funds. One vehicle was being kept in a cul-de-sac and not at the specified operating centre.
Hussain said that he was in dispute with his landlord, which was why the vehicle had been parked in the street for more than a year. He accepted he had persistently overloaded his vehicles with frozen chickens, saying he had done so as customers had asked him to do so. If his licence was suspended or revoked he would lose his business He had brought no details of his finances to the public inquiry, despite being asked to do so.
In his notice of appeal, Hussain asked for an extension of time in order to sell his business He thought that the TC had not given him credit for the absence of overloading convictions in the past two years.
Dismissing the appeal, the Transport Tribunal said that the TC was confronted with a case of persistent non-compliance and they could find no fault with his decision.