‘Appoint new transport manager or lose licence’
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By Roger Brown
CTC EURoPE.CoM, which failed to disclose its transport manager’s second drink-driving conviction on its o-licence application form, has been given three months to recruit a new one or lose its licence.
In a written decision after an August public inquiry in Eastbourne, Nick Denton, trafic commissioner (TC) for the South Eastern and Metropolitan area, said the transport manager at the Addlestone-based haulier, Alex Greenhalgh, had lost his repute and disqualiied him from acting as a transport manager until May 2014.
CTC Europe.com had applied for an o-licence in March and disclosed that Greenhalgh had been disqualiied from driving for 16 months in 2004 following a drink-driving offence. However, a second drink-drive conviction incurred by Greenhalgh in February – 10 days before the applications were completed – was not disclosed. Greenhalgh was banned from driving for 36 months, reduced to 27 months, until May 2014, on condition that he attend a drink-drive awareness course.
TC Denton said the failure of the company’s director Alan Greenhalgh – uncle of Alex – to notify the conviction was a “serious omission” and issued a strong warning to him about future declarations.
He granted the irm a licence for 12 vehicles and six trailers on condition that it appoints a new transport manager within three months, and added: “The transport manager, when signing the application, declares that he understands his responsibilities include notifying the TC of any convictions. It’s dificult to act as an effective transport manager if one is a second-time offender themselves.”