Lost licence is regained
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/Canberra Freight Services' Gary Tarrant, who lost his licence in February 1991 on grounds of repute, has been granted a new international licence for two vehicles and two trailers by South Eastern and Metropolitan Deputy Licensing Authority John Stevenson.
In February 1991 the then Metropolitan LA Air Vice Marshal Ronald Ashford said Tarrant, of Silvertown in London, had possibly misunderstood the rules when he used someone else's 0-licence and international permits, but he must have known that it was wrong to operate vehicles with rebated fuel and without tax.
Tarrant said that since then he had been letting trailers out to sub-contractors. His main customer, John C Wheeler International, had stood by him, and he had been acting as a clearing house on its behalf.
Questioned by Stevenson,
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Tarrant agreed that he had not had a good record when he had run Canberra Freight Services.
Stevenson said he understood that the vehicle Tarrant was saying was in his possession had been registered in the name of Mark Power in March 1991. Power had acquired it from Portline Services.
Tarrant said that an ownerdriver had taken over the vehicle. It was never paid for and it was passed on to another driver. He had asked for the vehicle back and it had been in the yard ever since and he had the registration document. He thought Portline had acquired the vehicle from Power. Portline had been set up by the drivers who used to drive for him at one time. They got a licence and rented vehicles from him.
When the DLA pointed out that Portline's application for a licence had been refused, Tarrant said that was why the whole operation finished.
Stevenson said Tarrant appeared to be as confused as he was. According to DVLA records the vehicle had been owned by Canberra Freight, it then went to Portline and then to Power. It made him wonder what was going on. The vehicle had passed between a number of operators, some of whose licence applications had been refused.
Granting a licence until the end of next year, Stevenson said that he still had some slight hesitation as things were "a bit in the air".