Company refused 0-licence
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A Huddersfield firm has been refused an 0licence because Its proprietor was connected with various companies that had operated illegally.
Summerhose had applied to North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Brian Horner for a one-vehicle/onetrailer international licence based at Red Lion Garage, Wakefield Road, Lepton, Huddersfield.
Sale director and transport manager Joseph Ward admitted he had been In trouble in the past over operating without a licence, but this time he was applying for a licence first.
In reply to the Deputy IC, Ward said that vehicles parked at the site with the name "Ward" on the side were unlicensed. He did not own them and they were nothing to do with him at all.
lie was proposing to carry fertiliser. He had to have a licence as the fertiliser manufacturer wanted to see the licence before he began carrying for them.
Ward agreed that he had been a director of Polaw, a company with a poor maintenance record which had been convicted of drivers hours and tachograph offences before going into liquidation.
He also agreed that he had been the transport manager of Mattwood, trading as Ward & Sons. which had withdrawn its application for a licence; and of Urbantome, trading as Wards Transport, before withdrawing from that company because of his history.
He said that if Summerhose were granted a licence, it would be totally separate from Urbantome, He was not a director or transport man
ager of that company. Ile agreed that they would be sharing the same operating centre, but said it would be a completely separate operation and that the financial situation was a lot better than in the past. He concluded that if he failed to get a licence here he would have to go abroad to operate.
Refusing the application, the Deputy TC said that in the light of the convictions sustained by the previous companies under Ward's leadership, the previous maintenance difficulties and the past financial problems, he considered insufficient time had elapsed for Ward to regain his repute.
He was surprised that Ward had made the application in view of these past problems.