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Liquidator retrieves tractor
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THE LIQUIDATOR of a failed company has won back an impounded vehicle which can now be sold to offset the firm's debts.
The truck had been used illegally as a favour to a customer, but the Traffic Area Office failed to tell the liquidator that the licence had been revoked.
The Renault Magnum tractor unit, belonging to Manchester-based Supermove, was impounded after the revocation. South-Eastern & Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps ordered its return.
When the tractor was checked at Dover Docks. it was displaying an 0-licence disc for a different vehicle. Its trailer was loaded with plastic and steel from Italy to be delivered to London. The driver told the traffic examiner he was employed by Supermove. Tachograph charts revealed several drivers' hours offences; the vehicle and trailer were both given prohibitions notices; the test certificate had expired at the end of October. Supermovc's director Tony Williams told the traffic examiner that he accepted the vehicle was being used illegally, but said the company was in the hands of liquidators and the journey had been a one-off favour for a client.
The vehicle was returned to liquidator Claire Dwyer hut the TC pointed out that Supermove was the registered keeper of three other vehicles, which might continue to be operated without a licence. If any of those vehicles were impounded, then the grounds for their return— that the owner was unaware they were being operated without a licence — would no longer be available.