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IC warns she may refuse to return confiscated trucks
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• by Mike Jewell A firm that had eight Scania tractors seized by the Vehicle Inspectorate is unlikely to get them back, a Carlisle public inquiry has heard. The trucks were impounded by the Vi while being operated by K9 Logistics as a subcontractor to P&O Ferrymasters in Fleetwood (CM 21-27 March). However, the trucks are owned by McElvaney Motors, one of Ireland's largest Scania dealers.
North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell heard that according to DVLA the registered keeper of each of the tractors was K9 Logistics. Senior traffic examiner Mark Parish said K9 did not hold a British 0-licence or an Irish international road freight licence.
K9 director Alexander Anderson, a Belfast resident, said that MoElvaney Motors MD Oliver MoFhoney was also a director of Ka He maintained that MoEhianey Motors was the owner of the vehicles and K9 rented them monthly.
Anderson added that Oliver McElvaney had no knowledge of KY's misdemeanours and agreed that he had signed the application for the vehicles to be returned, claiming McElvaney was in the United States. He said the business had been started by himself and Peter O'Dwyer with O'Dwyer left to sort oul 0-licences for the UK and Ireland. O'Dwyer left the company in March 2001 and it later transpired that all the documents obtained by him were invalid.
Anderson said that as soon as he was aware of the situation K9 applied for an 0-licence to try and protect the jobs of 31 drivers. Financially it was going to cost him everything that he had: he estimated the value of the impounded vehicles to be around £100,000 and it was costing upward of £10,000 a week in lost income.
Adjourning the proceedings to enable Anderson to produce further documentation, Bell warned she was Considering not returning the vehicles: "I am not convinced you did not know you did not have an 0-licence," she told Anderson. "I find it inconceivable that you were hoodwinked by Mr O'Dwyer."