Firm wins nine days' grace
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The licence held by Christopher Wishart. trading as Cleanfast Waste Services. of Liverpool. has been revoked because Wishart had falsely stated that he was a sole trader. He had held a licence since the spring of 1997.
Vehicle examiner James Dorman told North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe that he visited the firm in November and spoke to Wishart, who said he was the manager and was employed by Anwar Salim. Wishart claimed that the only partners in the firm were Salim and his wife Sandra. A licence held by Anwar Salim, trading as Cleanfast Motor Services, had been revoked in December 1996 (CM 9-15 Jan 1997).
Mrs Salim told Dorman that they had applied for the new licence using the services of a firm of transport consultants. It would appear that the application had been placed in another name, with Wishart declaring that he was a sole trader. In fact the licence and the firm were still under the control of the Salims.
Accepting that the licence had to be revoked, Joanne Hedges, for the firm, said that it had now been made into a limited company and a licence application had been submitted in the name of that company. Interim authority was being sought to start operating. Hedges asked for the revocation to be delayed pending the new application so the business could continue— the company held a lot of contracts with food companies.
She added that since the licence had been granted the business had run very smoothly—there had been a number of checks by the VI without any problems.
When his licence was revoked Salim had been advised that Wishart, who was his transport manager, should apply for a licence. The consultants had assisted with the preparation of the application which was submitted in good faith.
Ordering that the revocation should not take effect for nine days, when the application for the interim licence would be considered at a public inquiry, the Deputy IC said Wishart had falsely stated that he was a sole trader and that nobody connected with the business had had a licence revoked.