Kingsway turned down
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• A licence bid by Kingsway Freight of Immingham, has been turned down by North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Norman Moody, after Humberside police claimed it had been operating three vehicles illegally since January.
The company applied for a new international licence for five vehicles and 10 trailers, but failed to appear at a Hull public inquiry.
Chief Inspector Terence Hubbard gave evidence of 11 incidents where vehicles belonging to the company had been stopped while carrying goods without an '0' licence or excise licences. He said that on some occasions no registration marks were displayed on the rear of the trailers, tachographs were unsealed and one vehicle had no test certificate.
The company had been unable to produce tachograph charts and was unable to offer any explanation for that failure. A director, a Mr Drewery, had identified Ian Ellis Morton as the general manager. Morton had been convicted of conspiracy to defraud in 1982 at Bristol Crown Court and was disqualified from acting as a director or manager of any company for five years. Clearly, said Hubbard, Morton had been acting in a managerial capacity for Kingsway Freight during that period. He added that Morton had signed a letter on behalf of the company denying all knowledge of a vehicle Drewery had identified on several occasions as belonging to Kingsway Freight. Moody said the vehicle con cerned had been specified in the application.
Refusing the application, Moody said the company had flouted the system and was unfit to hold a licence. Morton, who was said to be the manager, did not hold a CPC and even if he was qualified, he lacked the necessary repute to be the company's transport manager. The operation had been such a flagrant violation of the law that he also found Drewery to be not of good repute.