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• Rainham, Essex-based S Portors Haulage's eightvehicle international licence has been revoked by Metropolitan Licensing Authority Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Ashford. But he has postponed implementing the ban pending an appeal to the Transport Tribunal.
The company was called to disciplinary proceedings after receiving convictions for unauthorised use and vehicle excise duty offences, and failing to report them. It also failed to notify a change in the company's ownership.
The LA heard that the company had been taken over in mid-1987 by the son and daughter of Donald Collinson, a director of DFC International, whose licence application was refused by the LA in July 1987 on the grounds of his conduct while a director of Dagenham Freight Carriers.
That decision was subsequently upheld by the Trans
port Tribunal on appeal, but an order disqualifying Collison and his wife Jean from holding or obtaining a licence for five years was quashed.
Donald Collison's vehicles were transferred to the Portors' eight-vehicle licence in August 1987, but drivers reported that they still worked for Donald Colson. The vehicles were registered, and the insurance was held, in the name of a company owned by Donald Collison.
Ashford concluded that Collison's son and daughter were merely a front and that the power lay with Donald Collison. Even ignoring Donald Collison's involvement, there had been a considerable number of vehicles used without licence authority or vehicle excise duty. The company had also failed to comply with the conditions of its licence.