Licence delay over Newman control
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• Suspicion over who really controls the business of Anthony Newman, trading as Tony Newman Transport, of Girvan, has led to Scottish Licensing Authority Hugh McNamara reserving decision on an application for a 12vehicle-and-trailer international licence. Newman had applied for a licence, based at the premises of Asset! Motors, Grangestone Industrial Estate, and the LA was told that he was leasing the vehicles from a Robert Robertson.
Last March Robertson had been disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for three years, when the LA revoked his existing licence, for eight vehicles and trailers, in the light of 62 convictions for offences including overloading, insecure and dangerous loads, drivers' hours, defective brakes, and having no excise licence (CM 27 March 1987).
The LA was told that since Newman had taken over, vehicles had been found to be in a dangerous condition, drivers had broken the drivers' hours rules and there had been overloading offences.
Traffic examiner William McConnochie said that he believed that the business was still being run by Robertson. Mrs Robertson was Newman's secretary and a cheque for a driver's wages had been signed by Robertson.
Denying that Robertson had anything to do with the business, Newman said that one of the problems had been that the drivers had been working on a self-employed basis. He had previously operated without problems in England, but since he had leased the vehicles from Robertson he had been bamboozled left, right and centre.