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Disqualification after selling firm for El
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The sale of an 0-licence as a live entity goes to the very heart of repute", says the Deputy Traffic Commissioner.
A DERBYSHIRE HAULIER. who sold his limited company for ft has had the 0-licence he held in his own name revoked and has been disqualified from holding an 0-licence for three years.
In addition, Ripley-based Richard Dobb — trading as EC Logistics with a licence for three vehicles and three trailers — was held to have lost his repute as a transport manager by NorthWestern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney.
The DTC was told that a delayed prohibition was issued in January for worn tyres. Stated inspection periods were not being adhered to, with two of the three vehicles going as long as 12 weeksbetweeninspections.Additionally, there was no evidence of a drivers' written defect reporting system. Of the three vehicles presented for annual test in the past 12 months, two had failed on initial presentation. Dobb said he had been a director of Dobb Bros. but had decided to close that business after his father retired and because of the financial problems in general haulage.
All the creditors had been paid off and he had resigned as a director, Dobb added. He was paying off a guarantee at the bank at f1,000 a month. He had sold Dobb Bros through an advert in CM for fl . He did not know what that company was currently doing ('Haulier must wait for 0-licence decision', CM 3 July).
The DTC said it was incredible that an 0-licence could be sold for E1 in response to an advert in a magazine. It would have been easier to allow the limited company to lapse by writing to Companies House. which cost only a second-class stamp. The sale of an 0 licence as a live entity, allowing others to function on that licence without the knowledge of the TC, "went to the very heart of repute."
That was in addition to an operator and transport manager who functioned so badly that inspection intervals were exceeded and vehicles used that attracted prohibitions even when driven by the operator himself, who was a trained mechanic, on evidently defective tyres.
The combination of the poor state of the vehicles over a relatively short-lived licence (it having been granted at the end of May 2007), combined with the sale of Dobb Bros, made this a serious case. The latter device might have allowed vehicles to be used unsafely and illegally in all sorts of ways.