Repute stalls Pendale's licence
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1 A Humberside haulier 'hose transport manager llegedly threatened to shoot is local traffic examiner has tiled to win an operating hence on grounds of ill-repute.
North Eastern Licensing Aurority Brian Homer refused to andle an application for a new aernational licence from Penale Transport Services at a eeds public inquiry last week, ecause of the repute of its ansport manager William Ialcolmson.
Pendale Transport Services I Eastrington, near Goole had *lied for a licence to run four ehicies and three trailers, but le inquiry was told of Mal)linson's poor record and that s claim that local traffic exliners accepted bribes was a mnplete fabrication.
The Traffic Area's enforcetent manager, William owyer, told the inquiry that was considerably concerned out the nomination of MalArnson as transport manager.
His department had had conderable trouble over the !ars with Malcolmson as ansport manager of A & W tternational and South View arm Services: Malcolmson id been obstructive and abuve and had continually resed to be interviewed by affic examiners, said Bowyer.
On one occasion Malcolmson id even threatened to shoot a affic examiner, who had been lvised for his own safety not visit the premises again, it as alleged.
Bowyer gave details of !yen occasions when Malilmson had refused to be in terviewed, and of eight convictions recorded against A & W International. Ten out of 15 reports had not been processed because of Malcolmson's refusals to be interviewed.
Malcolmson told Homer that he had complained about traffic examiners taking "backhanders", but nothing had been done about it. It had been alleged that he had threatened a traffic examiner with a shotgun but he claimed, that he had never owned a shotgun. He had said, however, that if the traffic examiner concerned came telling lies again he might get shot.
He had only had problems with the one traffic examiner. He had only abused the one examiner, and that was because the examiner had told lies, he said. All these matters had been brought up at a public inquiry in 1986 when South View Farm Services had been granted a licence, said Malcolmson. There had not been a single conviction in the two years since that inquiry.
Bowyer pointed out that Malcolmson had refused to be interviewed by traffic examiners in 1987 and 1988 and, in the light of Malcolmson's allegations that he had had to pay examiners to remove prohibition notices imposed on vehicles in the docks, Homer directed that letters be read out that stated those allegations had been investigated and found to be without foundation.
Malcolmson said that he had never said that he had had to give money to examiners on the docks.
All he had said was that he had had to give examiners whisky, which, he claimed, other hauliers had to do too.
Homer said it was a history of most disturbing conduct. Malcolmson's repute was such that it did not justify the grant of a licence. He would set the application aside while the company considered whether to put forward a different transport manager.