Emergecourt wins
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• Emergecourt of West Houghton, near Bolton, has been granted a renewal of its operator's licence only after appointing a new transport manager.
North West Licensing Authority Roy Hutchings made it clear that the application would have been refused had the company not appointed a substitute for its former transport manager, T A Wright.
Any grant was conditional upon a licence held by Trefford Haulage Ltd trading as Leigh Trailer Hire being surrendered.
Hutchings said the public inquiry had been called because of a series of convictions for offences which included having no excise licence, taxing a vehicle at the wrong rate of duty, having an untested trailer, failures to fix manufacturer's plates and overloading.
Michael Leigh, Emergecourt's managing director. claimed that the offences had arisen when the vehicles had been hired from Leigh Trailer Hire and put on the Trefford Haulage licence. He said that Wright no longer had any connection with Emergecourt and his place as transport manager had been taken by Joseph Barnes.
Revoking the Trefford Haulage licence, Hutchings said that the convictions were in the name of T A Wright trading as Trefford Haulage and he found that Wright no longer met the requirement to be of good repute because of those convictions.
In view of Wright's substitution as transport manager of Emergecourt he would grant that company's application. However, he made it plain that if Wright had remained transport manager the licence Would have been refused.