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Allegations lead to bid adjournment

21st November 1996, Page 129
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• Suspicions that Bilston man may be a front for a disqualified operator have led to the adjournment of his application for a new national licence.

Bernard Campbell, trading as Roadtrack Services, had applied for a licence for two vehicles and one trailer at a Birmingham public inquiry. He agreed that he had bought two vehicles and a trailer from Clifford Morgan, who had traded under the same name from the same address before losing his Operator's Licence.

Campbell said that he had previously been employed by Morgan, but when the latter went out of business he decided to branch out on his own. He had paid 0,000 for the vehicles and trailer, some of the money coming from his sister Mrs Mathis.

Campbell agreed that his sister had previously been known as Mrs Morgan, that she was to act as his transport manager and that she had acted in that capacity for Morgan. He denied that Morgan had anything to do with the business.

Adjourning the proceedings until December, West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Roger Seymour said that he wanted Campbell to provide evi


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