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Shopped haulier is drummed out
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do to the police because he felt that it was dangerous has lost her licence and been disqualified from holding one indefinitely.
Sarea Taunts, trading as Younis Haulage, of Ashton-under-Lyne holds a one-vehicle licence and had been called before the North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell at a Bury disciplinary Inquiry. In November 2001 one of Miss Younis' drivers, Thomas Philpott, was tined for drivers' hours and tachograph offences after he had taken his vehicle to the police because of concern over its condition ( CM 22-28 November 20011.
Younis said that when Philpott took the vehicle to the police in March 2001 he was escorted to the test station where the vehicle was given a prohibition. The last defect report completed by Philpott had been in November 2000. The vehicle had been regularly inspected since March 2001, but Younis claimed that there were no records between May and September 2001 because the vehicle had been stolen. The unit was recovered but it took some weeks to get it back and have it repaired and it was later sold. A vehicle given a prohibition in June 2002 was a hired vehicle. She felt that the items listed in the prohibition should have been reported to
Bell: "As each answer came out it became more and more unbelievable."
her by the driver. Three weeks later she was asked to collect the vehicle from the Al as the driver Geoffrey Byrne had been arrested because he did not have a Class I driving licence.
"My problems since March 2001 have been with drivers," she said.
Philpott said things were fine initially but Younis then began to expect more and more from him. On one occasion he was out of hours when returning to the depot from Felixstowe but was instructed to go to the other side of Hull.
He took the vehicle to the police after he was asked to pick up a trailer in Felixstowe although the truck had failed its annual test and the repairs had not been carried out.
The IC said she was satisfied that Philpott had been honest in his evidence and that Younls had not been an honest witness.
"As each answer came out it became mare and more unbelievable," said Bell. "It became more and more incredible as the afternoon wore on.''