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Traffic Commissioner bans two consultants from representing firm

2nd September 2004
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TWO TRANSPORT consultants have been banned from representing a client as the row over the power of Traffic Commissioners rumbles on.

TCTom Macartney has told Pallas Transport not to call in Alec Hayden of Trans-Consult, nor Gerald Hamilton of UBS Transport Consultants, after its owner applied for a new licence.

Sylvia Pallas appeared before the North-Eastern TC in a bid to take over Pallas Transport and Montana Freight Services, which operate from the same site in Northumberland.The Birtley firm was seeking a new national licence for 21 vehicles and 14 trailers, and the hearing has been adjourned until October.

Pallas, and John McCaffrey of Montana Freight Services, mounted an appeal in Scotland after the TransportTribunal upheld the TC's revocation of their licences (see investigation, page 28). They are being advised by Hayden, who is trying to bypass the English TCs.

Macartney said some correspondence from Hayden and Hamilton was:"Lacking in professional objectivity and abusive." The TC said the Traffic Area Office had been sent a list of people representing the firm, including Hayden,Hamil ton, the Prime Minister, various solicitors and a barrister.

He determined it was inappropriate for Hayden or Hamilton to represent the firm, as he believed they had not been acting in the firm's best interests, adding that Pallas's representatives might have obstructed a vehicle examiner, which she denied. Macartney said any further obstruction could be fatal to the company's application, and vehicles would be impounded if they were operated, as the company has no authority to use them.


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