LA says many lawyers don't understand '68 Transport Act
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Gordon Knowles of Worksop
Many solicitors do not understand the provisions of the 1968 Transport Act, and the rules and regulations that had come into force in relation to it, says Eastern LA John Mervyn Pugh.
The LA granted a new national licence for 12 months to Gordon Knowles, of Carlton Forest, Worksop, who had applied for a licence for two vehicles and three trailers. There was a representation against the application from Mr and Mrs J. Vernon Parry, but this was out of time; Katherine Vernon Parry said it had been sent back by the Traffic Area office because it had not been signed. She said that in fact it had been signed and was sent in by their solicitor.
The LA said that the regulations stated that representations must be signed by the representors themselves. Mr and Mrs Vernon Par ry's legal representative had advised them wrongly and caused their representation to be out of time.
The LA found that exceptional circumstances enabled him to consider the representations although they were out of time.
For Mr and Mrs Vernon Parry, it was said that they now knew where Knowles proposed to park the vehicles; would carry out no maintenance at the operating centre; and would use the most northerly entrance. Knowles was also prepared to undertake to restrict his normal operations to between 0630 and 1900 hours, but with some flexibility. That would meet the representations Knowles said that he was prepared to enter a "gentleman's agreement*.