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Worcestershire operator has last its bid to have one of
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eight Impounded vehicles returned to it after the West Midland Traffic Commissioner rejected its appeal.
TC David Dixon had already returned the other seven vehlcies to two finance companies. However Woodborough-based UK Plant & Haulage Management had sought the return of the remaining truck on the grounds that it had hired the truck to UK Plant & Haulage Services which went Into administration In May. It was asserted that the administrator must have been using the truck for hire without an 0-licence, an assertion the TC found to be without basis.
The application first came before Dixon In early August, but neither the company secretary John Wood nor the sole director Andrew Vorwerg attended. Although a John Bruce said that he wished to represent the company, the TC declined to accept this. The subsequently
case was adjourned twice, once
until early September to enable Wood or Vorwerg to attend.
When the
hearing resumed, Bruce again appeared, saying that Wood was unable to attend and that Vorwerg had resigned as a director. The TC adjourned again to give Wood or a director of the company a final
opportunity to attend. However, on resumption only Bruce attended for the firm.
Refusing the return of the vehicle, Dixon said that there were close links between the two companies. Vorwerg was a director of UK Plant & Haulage Management between August 2001 and June 2002 and of UK Plant & Haulage Services from February 2001 until May 2002. Wood was company secretary of the latter from August 2001 until February 2002 and remained company secretary of the former Any hire of the vehicle one to the other thus appeared to have been In effect an Internal accounting transaction. Had the vehicle been in the hands of the administrator of UK Plant & Services when impounded, he would have expected the administrator to have claimed It back, which did not happen.