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• A bid for a new five-vehicle licence by Wakekeen, trading as Challenger Transport, has been granted for one year only, by North Western Deputy Licensing Authority Kenneth Birchall.
The DLA reserved decision on the application by the Widnes-based company in October because he wanted more information concerning the leasing of the company's vehicles (CM 6-12 October).
The•DLA was told that the directors of the company were Robert Turner and his son Michael. Robert Turner had operated on his own before forming Arenatrans. That company had been advised to cease trading after its major customer twice cut the rates, and had subsequently been put into liquidation by a creditor. Turner had then been associated with a small parcels business which folded. Following this he had established Veerfleet with a Brian Charles. That company had been taken over by Charles, and it was said Turner and his son had had nothing to do with it when it went into liquidation. It had been the liquidator of that company who had dishonoured cheques.
The DLA was told Wakekeen was unlikely to run into similar problems. Its vehicles were leased from its principal customer for an all-in figure which included VED, insurance, fuel, tyres, oil, depreciation and maintenance, and the customer ensured that the work was profitable.
A condition on the licence by the DLA is that the company produces audited accounts when it applies for renewal.