ightyhire on the brink
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• Mightyhire of Hull has had its licence revoked after managing director Philip Barker pleaded guilty to 22 specimen charges of false accounting for overcharging customers.
North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority Anthony Richardson is considering disqualifying the firm and Barker from holding or applying for an Operator's Licence for the next two years. But the DLA is to hear arguments from the company first, and he has allowed the company to keep operating pending a possible appeal to the transport tribunal.
On 15 January Hull Crown Court sentanced Barker to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, fined him £11,000 and ordered him to pay costs of 210,800. The 11 drivers involved were all given conditional discharges.
The DLA said he believed the company had issued 1,100 false weight tickets to customers between April and October of 1988.
The Traffic Area was not told of the conviction, or of three other convictions for using vehicles without vehicle excise licences, and four convictions of failing to keep tachograph records. Richardson said this omission had worsened its case and its licence had to be revoked as Mightyhire had lost its good repute.