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Daughter used as front
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A haulier who had been investigated for the unauthorised use of operating centres "manipulated" his children. Mike Jewell reports.
A STUDENT WAS employed as a 'front' for her father in running a four-vehicle transport operation. As a result, the licence of West Drayton-based Rex Haulage has been revoked and the company disqualified from holding an 0-licence in any Traffic Area for three years, Eastern Traffic Commissioner Geoffrey Simms concluded that the firm's sole director, 21-year-old university student Jaspreet Grewal, was not really in charge of the operation. 1 le disqualified her from holding or obtaining an 0-licence in any Traffic Area for three years.
The company held a four-vehicle licence that was granted in February and its transport manager was Jaspreet Grewal's brother Tarvinderjit Grewal. Their father, Mohinder Singh Grewal, had held a licence that was surrendered in April. on which were specified the same four vehicles.
TheTC said traffic examiners had attempted to interview Mohinder Singh Grewal about the unauthorised use °Ian operating centre at Colnbrook without success. He had failed to co-operate with Vosa's enquiries.
Traffic examiner Alan Craig said that in January he had checked a vehicle displaying an O-licencedisc issued to Mohinder Singh Grewal. The tacho charts showed that the vehicle was being parked overnight at Colnbrook.When he phoned the site,Jaspreet Grewal answered and said the vehicle belonged to the firm and was being used under interim authority. Subsequent attempts to interview her were unsuccessful.
Jaspreet Grewal said her experience of transport operations came from the administrative work she had performed for her father, who gave up his licence on account of a dispute with his principal customer, Bardon Aggregates. The customers of Rex Haulage were Foster Yeoman and Tarmac, Although Jaspreet Grewal met the drivers when they collected their pay. their instructions came from her father while the business was funded by her mother. One vehicle was kept at the source of the work at Colnbrook. a more secure site than the authorised site at West Drayton. An application had been made for a licence in the Western Traffic Area in which Colnbrook was located.
Tarvinderjit Grewal said his father arranged the maintenance of the vehicles because of his greater experience.
The TC said Mohinder Singh Grewal had been under investigation for the unauthorised use of operating centres. I le surrendered his licence once the vehicles had been transferred to the Rex business. From the beginning. while operating under interim authority, similar misdemeanours were apparent.
The TC added that Jaspreet Grewal did not have a business to lose. Her father chose to surrender his licence and took a chance that a licence taken out in the name of a company might serve the purpose of enabling his business to continue while evading embarrassing investigations about where vehicles were being kept. Fronting was an exercise in deception. "The younger members of the Grewal family have been used and manipulated fort he benefit of their father:. the IC concluded. •