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Licence lost over shared manager
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Traffic Commissioner David Dixon has refused to grant an Operator's Licence to a West Midlands-based firm because he felt that the nominated transport manager could not have effective day-to-day control—she is based 60 miles away and is nominated on 17 other 0-licences.
Harvinder Singh Deo and Gurwinder Singh Bhandal, trading as D&B Transport under interim authority, had sought a new national licence for two vehicles. The nominated transport manager was Pam Owen, a partner in Owens Logistics Consultancy. of Shrivenham, near Swindon.
The IC was told that D&B Transport was working for Dixons using vehicles supplied by Don Valley Self Drive of Sheffield. Its maintenance was carried out by a sister company in Coventry. Copies of the maintenance records were sent to D&B Transport and Pam Owen.
Owen agreed that she was nominated on four other licences in the West Midlands, and 13 others held in the Scottish, Western, Eastern and South Eastern & Metropolitan Traffic Areas.
In total she was authorised for almost 60 vehicles. The fact that Owen and her husband were nominated on such a large number of licences had not been previously challenged by any TC. The couple were in regular contact with all the operators, she said. All the tachograph charts were regularly analysed and any driver who committed an offence was referred to the relevant operator who would investigate further.
Owen believed this procedure ensured that all the licences concerned were properly conducted in compliance with the law.
Refusing the application, the IC said that there was no requirement for transport managers to be employed full time, so they could be nominated on more than one licence. However, they must be able to fulfil their duties properly in respect of each licence.
In Dixon's view Owen could not possibly do that for Mandel and Deo as well as 17 ether licences extending from Southampton to Cumbernauld.