Owner's efforts were just not good enough
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• A Liverpool waste clearance company has lost its licence and its proprietor has been disqualified from holding or obtaining an Operator's Licence.
Cleanfast Waste Services was called before North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Patrick Mulvenna. DOT vehicle examiner Eric Bober said that he had inspected the firm's four vehicles and issued one immediate prohibition, one delayed prohibition and three defect notices. The operating centre was a dark and dirty dockside warehouse, he added, and the vehicles were often seen parked in a narrow street between warehouses.
Since January 1995 five immediate and four delayed prohibitions had been imposed on the firm's vehicles, said Bober. Advice had been ignored, he said, and vehicles had been operated
in a dangerous condition.
Proprietor Anwar Salim said he had done his best but obviously it wasn't good enough: convictions for four offences of receiving stolen property, for which he had served a 12-month prison sentence, had nothing to do with transport, he added.
It was said that an overdraft facility would cover the maintenance of the vehicles, but Mulvenna pointed out that the limit had already been exceeded more than once.
Revoking the licence, Mulvenna said the condition of the vehicles had steadily worsened since the licence was granted and he found there were no longer sufficient financial resources.
Holding that Salim was no longer of good repute, he disqualified him from holding a licence until the convictions are spent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.