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Lending an 0-licence leads to revocation
SMETHWICK, SAN DWELLbasedRaymond Cosaitis has had his 0-licence revoked by West Midland Deputy Traffic Commissioner Fiona Harrington after allowing it to be used by another person. The DTC also found that transport manager Philip Ordidge had lost his repute.
Cosaitis, trading as Deb's Transport and Haulage, held an international licence for two vehicles.
In a telephone conversation with Traffic Area Office (TAO) staff, Cosaitis had said that he had sold both of his vehicles some time ago, one to a Mohammed Anwar, that he now lived in Devon: and that he had not been using his 0-licence. Cosaitis subsequently wrote to the TAO saying that if anyone was using his 0-licence, it was without his knowledge or authority.
Cosaitis was associated with a restricted licence previously held by Chip N Dales, which lapsed in August 2007. According to Companies House. that firm had been dissolved in September 2004.
Vehicle examiner Peter Handley said a colleague, Austin Jones, was advised by telephone in November 2007 that Deb's Transport and Haulage had been sold and that Chip N Dales was now trading from the same operating centre.
Jones visited the operating centre and met with Anwar. who told him he was the site manager. Anwar said Cosaitis "just did the transport", Chip N Dales was the company, Deb's Transport and Haulage owned the vehicle and Cosaitis still had the 0-licence. He added that he was using Cosaitis' licence until he acquired his own. Jones telephoned Cosaitis, who said he was doing Anwar a favour by allowing him to trade on his licence until a new application had been processed.
Three prohibitions had been issued to trailers, yet there was no licence authority to operate trailers. The annual test pass rate was substantially below the national average.