Licence bid for Dial A Skip fails
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• Dial A Skip (London)'s man aging director Henry King does not have the capacity or integrity to operate an eight-vehicle business, said the South Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner. Brigadier Michael Turner reversed Dial A Skip's interim authority and refused its bid for a full licence. The company was applying for a 10-vehicle and five-trailer licence based at Pensbury Place, London, at an Eastbourne public inquiry.
Brigadier Turner gave several reasons for his refusal: the company operated on another company's licence for several months after acquiring FRC Transport last year, While the acquisition details were finalised, Dial A Skip operated on the licence of FRC's former owner. No licence application was made by Dial A Skip until January this year. FRC's former owner Frederick Colling-wood was convicted four times for \TED offences when he ran the business—and there had been a further conviction when King had been running the business.
King denied knowing about the convictions, and Brigadier Turner asked him to study a statement he made to a VRO officer in which he accepted responsibility for the offences.
Saying that he felt King had sought to mislead him, Brigadier Turner commented that it was quite clear that King did know about the convictions.