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CCS gets licence against odds
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• A company formed to take over the business of Liverpoolbased Thorburn International Transport has succeeded in winning a licence, despite its transport manager being a disqualified director.
The North Western DTC Patrick Mulvenna was considering action against the licence held by Crown Cold Stores at a St Helens Public Inquiry (PI).
Wallace Thorburn and his daughter Jeanette were disqualified from acting as directors for four and three years respectively in October 2000 as a result of their conduct as directors of Thorburn International Transport Ltd.
Two years later Crown Cold Stores, trading as Thorburn International Transport, went into administration (CM 19-25 Sep 2002).
But Crown Cold Stores & Distribution, run by Thor-burn's other daughter Karen. then made an application to take over Thorburn International
Transport's business.
Wallace Thorburn confirmed that he was now the transport manager for the firm and even suggested he would become a director if a licence was granted.
He added that the transport side of the business had always been profitable and it was that side that Crown Cold Stores & Distribution would be taking over The DTC was told about a number of drivers' hours offences committed by Thorburn International drivers since a previous PI in November 2000.
For the operators, James Backhouse argued that there had been a significant improvement in compliance since the last PI, with the vast majority of the drivers having no problems.
The DTC said he was satis
fled that there were mitigating circumstances for the offences. He decided to take no action against Thorburn International, and granted Crown Cold Stores & Distribution's licence conditional on the surrender of Thorburn International's licence.
Thorburn later denied saying he would become director for Crown Cold Stores & Distribution, claiming he hoped to retire next year instead.