Relatives will not be involved
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• An Operator, whose family used to run a haulage business which had its licence revoked, has succeeded in his hid for a licence after assuring the traffic commissioner his relatives are not involved in his new venture.
Ian Aldridge, trading as Ian Aldridge Transport, applied for a new national licence for five vehicles and eight trailers based at the Pennyg-illam Industrial Estate, Launceston, before Western Traffic! Commissioner Air Vice Marshal Ronald Ashford.
Aldridge is a son and nephew of the men who ran J Aldridge Transport (Cornwall) before the company had its licence revoked in December 1991 for repeatedly failing to properly tax vehicles.
Aldridge's uncle, John Aldridge, lost his own licence after the commissioner decided that he no longer met the good repute requirement because he had been a director and transport manager of J Aldridge. His appeal against the revocation of that licence was dismissed by the Transport Tribunal in February Assuring the commissioner that the family were not involved in the new venture, Ian Aldridge said that he had done a deal with the local authority to obtain a new operating centre.
Producing letters of support from customers, Jonathan Lawton, for Aldridge, said it was genuinely his own endeavour which had nothing to do with his father's and uncle's businesses. Ian Aldridge was financing the business entirely out of his own resources.