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'Carry on but with new TM'
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A North-Western operator has been granted a licence in the West but told to find a replacement for a "disreputable" transport manager.
Mike Jewell reports.
CHESHIRE-BASED F Swain & Sons has been granted a new licence in the Western area but has been told to find a new transport manager within three months.
The firm had applied for a 16 vehicle and trailer licence based at Iron Acton, near Bristol to cope with expansion in the South-West.
Western TC Philip Brown heard that the proposed transport manager, Martin Galpin, of Yale, had been fined £2,000 with a 180-hour community punishment order for acting in the management of a limited company while an undischarged bankrupt. Brown described his business affairs as "disreputable".
Galpin had held a licence for six vehicles and eight trailers granted in 1996, He agreed that he had formed Martin Logistics (Bristol) after being made bankrupt in 2001, and that it had operated without an 0-licence.
He had not been a director of that company and had no financial arrangements with it, but had been transport manager, which counted as indirect management.
He currently held a licence for six vehicles and eight trailers, trading as Martin Logistics Contracts. Swain's operations manager Peter Millington said they had used his firm for storage, subcontracting and as a depot. They wanted Galpin as transport manager and had offered him a contract for 30 hours a week.
Cutting Galpin's licence to three vehicles and three trailers, the TC said he did not understand how he could undertake 30 hours as Swain's transport manager and run his own business at the same time. Galpin's past history had not filled him with any confidence —his business affairs were disreputable whichever way it was looked at.