aulier's bid for 0-lic opposed by RHA
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YORKSHIRE haulier's bid a new operator's licence is ng opposed by the Road ulage Association on two ainds. It argues that Navi:ion Haulage (Horbury) I, of Wakefield, is not fit to Id a standard national !rice and lacks appropriate incial standing.
[he hearing, which first ne before North-Eastern puty Licensing Authority irman Moody in July, has w been adjourned until ■ vember.
3rahani Parker, Naviga'I's director and transport nager, told the LA last ek that he had increased his reholding in the company from 33 per cent to 50 per cent. The remaining shares are held by Ian Long, who worked for about six months as a driver and had been a director since July II. Two other directors, Richard Owen Haley and Richard Elale.y, have resigned and disposed of their shares.
Parker said the company leased its premises from Trevor Hurst, from whom the vehicles had been leased until three were purchased out of the profits earned on coal haulage for R. Hanson and Sons of Wakefield.
He admitted that the company did not yet have a bank account, as all monies were paid into an account held by Hope Engineering Services (another Hanson sub-contractor and a firm of which Richard Haley was a partner), nor could he give details of the trade creditors' figure or PAYE or VAT liabilities.
Parker insisted to RHA counsel Stephen Kirkbright that he was not merely a "front man" for the Haleys. Navigation Haulage was a separate legal entity and he refused to accept that the company was losing money.
It had found £16,000 to pay for the vehicles and repay a loan from Horst, he said, but he could not say what, the monthly profit was.