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No licence for Poulter
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• The appeal by Charles Poulter Ltd against the refusal of the Metropolitan LA to grant it an operator's licence, heard on May 11, has been refused by the Transport Tribunal. To allow time for Mr Ronnie Davis, its managing director, to "make the necessary arrangements" with regard to the 89 vehicles and 80 trailers involved the order will not take effect until June 30.
The Tribunal said it found hard to believe the claim by Mr Ronnie Davis that with an operator's licence the business was worth £120,000 but without it it was only worth .£40,000. "An operator's licence, unlike a carrier's licence, has no monopoly value", it said, and anyway the possible financial effect of the refusal of an 0 licence ought not to be taken into account.
The Tribunal, like Mr D. I. R. Muir, the Metropolitan LA, did not consider Mr Ronnie Davis a fit person to hold an operator's licence. "Although he is long past the age of childhood, it has to be remembered that he has been living in his parents' home as a dependent son and has no experience of standing on his own feet in the world" said the Tribunal. "He has shown himself capable of being overcome by a more forceful personality (referring to Mr SoIly Davis, his father, and previous managing director of Poulter) even to the extent of engaging in criminal activity, not on one isolated occasion, but over a considerable period of time. We find ourselves driven to the conclusion that he is not, at this stage of his development, fitted to be in charge of a haulage business, in the conduct of which a high degree of probity is required by law."
The Tribunal added that it might well be that. after "a substantial period in a subordinate position under superiors setting him a good example, he will be capable of graduating as a fit person to hold a licence".