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Two-year bar for partners

22nd April 1993, Page 18
22nd April 1993
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Page 18, 22nd April 1993 — Two-year bar for partners
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A licence for 31 vehicles and 31 trailers held by Paul and Wendy Brennan, trading as Brennan Tankers (Leeds) has been revoked. North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth has also disqualified the partners from holding a licence for two years.

Waterworth has, however, granted a one-year licence for 17 vehicles and 17 trailers to another family firm, Brennan Tankers of Retford, formed by their stepmother Anne Brennan.

Traffic examiner Keith Williamson said nine of the partners' drivers had been fined a total of £1,015 for drivers' hours and tachograph offences. In July 1.992 the firm's transport manager Jack Mortimer was fined £300 for making false declarations to obtain vehicle excise licences and Paul Brennan was fined £625 for offences relating to the use of vehicles. Of 17 vehicles used by the firm in July and August 1992, only six were taxed properly Caleb Moore of the DOT's vehicle registration office said when the firm ceased trading at the end of October 1992, it owed £16,000 worth of vehicle excise duty. Four of the vehicles were subsequently retaxed by Brennan Tankers.

Questioned by the commissioner, Paul Brennan said that he did not know anything about dishonoured cheques in payment of VED amounting to 15,115 and £2,732. He was aware of a £25 cheque in payment of a vehicle retest fee being dishonoured.

Asked why untaxed vehicles had been operated, Brennan said they had intended to park the vehicles up, but they were offered what appeared to be lucrative work.

Revoking the licence on grounds of both repute and financial standing, Waterworth said the performance of the partners had been lamentable.

Brennan Tankers had sought a licence for 22 vehicles and 22 trailers, with Mortimer as the transport manager. Williamson said that he had observed Brennan Tanker vehicles in use even though the company did not at present have a licence.

Gary Hodgson, for the company, conceded that it was trading. He said Paul and Wendy 's father, William Brennan, had run William Brennan (Bulk Liquids). When that company folded, Wendy and Paul set up as hauliers and were allowed free use of the operating centres at Tingley and Retford. Some of the William Brennan vehicles were transferred to the partners When their firm got into difficulty, Anne Brennan lent them money and as the vehicles became clear of hire purchase, she took them in repayment of the loan and then leased them back to the partners.

Waterworth said that he found it staggering that Mortimer was not aware of any pending prosecutions. Waterworth said he was putting the firm on a year's probation,


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