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One-time licence offender brought within the fold
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A NORTH EASTERN operator who ran without an 0-licence for a year before having a vehicle impounded has been granted an 0-licence.
North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe ruled it was better to have a "potentially compliant" operator in the club. But he made the grant of a three-vehicle licence to Hartlepool-based Philip Wilkinson, trading as P Wilkinson Transport Services,conditional on the employment of a full-time transport manager by the end of November.
Wilkinson said that he had substantial difficulty identifying and employing a CPC holder, but had now discovered he could share a transport manager, and had nominated Martin Frankland from the agency Transconsult.
It was a short-term measure as, once he obtained a licence, he would employ a full-time transport manager. Wilkinson had started doing courier work and business had built up very quickly. He was now one of the top courier firms on Teesside, taking car parts all over Europe.
He had seven smallervans and was asked to provide 7.5-tonne vehicles in the UK. mainly to Birmingham, which was when he started looking for a transport manager. He had naïvely thought he could operate while it was sorted out.
He had been running three vehicles without a licence for roughly a year until an accident wrote-off one of the vehicles, at which poin t Wilkinson came to the attention of the TC. The third vehicle had been parked up since the impounding.
Wilkinson said he had met Frankland once and believed he was only acting as transport manager for one other operator. The DTC said his information was that Frankland was transport manager on two other licences.