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Licence bid for company seeking to take over for a company whose licence was revoked is blocked by North Eastern TC.
A HUMBERSIDE company formed to take over the transport operation of a company whose licence had been revoked has been refused a licence of its own.
Hull-based Matway was seeking a new national licence for nine vehicles before North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney.
For the company, Gary Hodgson said it had been set up to provide transport for East Yorkshire Waste, a company that runs its own wastetransfer station.The two vehicles in possession had been acquired from East Yorkshire Waste and Matway's operating centre was at East Yorkshire's premises.
Matway's director Robert Sparrow said during 2003 his own business, Mick Sparrow Skip Hire, ran into difficulties and he was supported by Stuart Leveridge, director of East Yorkshire Recycling and former director of East Yorkshire Waste.
Licence revoked Leveridge saved Sparrow's business but subsequently lost his own business and East Yorkshire Waste's licence was revoked. An application by Leveridge for a fresh licence in the name of East Yorkshire Recycling was refused.
Sparrow wanted to help and Leveridge asked him to run the transport operation through the proposed new company, Matway, which would pay the drivers. The vehicles, which were on loan from Leve ridge, were currently being operated on Sparrow's own licence, trading as Mick Sparrow Skip Hire. Matway set up the operation, but when interim authority was refused the drivers were paid by Mick Sparrow. If the Matway licence was granted the Mick Sparrow licence would be surrendered.
Sparrow said he had not previously had anything to do with the East Yorkshire business in its various guises.
The TC said he was concerned by the link to Leveridge: DTC Elizabeth Perrett had concluded he had been up to all sorts of tricks to get round the system when she refused a licence for East Yorkshire Recycling at an earlier hearing.
Sparrow said Matway would be doing its own work as well as East Yorkshire's — Matway was so busy it was turning work away.
Matway's part-time transport manager, John Wellburn — a full-time prison officer — agreed he had also been part-time transport manager for East Yorkshire Waste and East Yorkshire Recycling. He said Matway had not yet discussed what he was to be paid.
Glynis Clarke, of Eastern Commercials, said her firm had handled East Yorkshire Waste's maintenance and, following the liquidation, it was owed some £8.000. She expressed concern that since the liquidation Leveridge seemed to have continued to operate as East Yorkshire Recycling. In the six to seven years her firm had carried out East Yorkshire's maintenance she had never seen or spoken to Wellburn.
Refusing Matway's application, the TC said the company had started to operate without authority and its transport manager had been ineffectual on a linked licence, which gave little confidence for the future. Furthermore, it was barely credible that what he was going to be paid had not been discussed. The free loan of vehicles from East Yorkshire Recycling to Matway also gave him concern. s