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Absent transport manager loses appeal on repute

9th December 2004
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Keywords : Logistics, Transport

AN ABSENTEE CPC holder who was transport manager in name only for a Yorkshire operator has lost his appeal against a finding that he had lost his repute.

Gerald Boyd had been the nominated transport manager on the licence held by Mary Gilmore, trading as P&M Transport. of Acomb. York, authorising three vehicles and three trailers. However, he did not actually do the work required of a transport manager under the regulations and had been living in Scotland for some months.

In March 2003 Mrs Gilmore was given a warning following concerns over repute and professional competence regarding the involvement of her then transport manager with several other licences. Boyd was appointed in his place.

In March 2004 the licence was revoked by the North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe because of the firm's poor maintenance record and its lack of an effective transport manager. Boyd did not attend the public inquiry and the DTC ruled that he had lost his repute as a transport manager. Before the Transport Tribunal Boyd said he had not been paid for his work with P&M Transport, that he had not realised that he should have notified the Traffic Area Office when he ceased to act as transport manager for the firm, and that he had been transport manager before for big companies and had never had any trouble.

The evidence of both the vehicle examiner and Mary Gilmore tended to show that the licence had not been well run,largely due to the absence of handson control by Boyd.

He had not been effectively in touch with the firm, let alone properly supervised the vehicles and their activities since his departure to Scotland some three months after the previous public inquiry. Gilmore had effectively been without a transport manager for some months.

Boyd had written to the TC admitting the firm had not had the benefit of the hands-on involvement expected of a transport manager. He had not even familiarised himself with such basic information as the frequency of preventative maintenance inspections. Operators with a standard licence must have in their employment one or more professionally competent transport managers who have continuous and effective responsibility for managing the transport operations of the business".

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Organisations: Traffic Area Office
Locations: York

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