ft-director of revoked haulier wins new licence
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A COMPANY RUN by a fonner director ofiRTyres & Collection, whose licence was revoked in April 2002. has succeeded in a bid for a licence after undertaking that JR's other director would have nothing to do with this new business.
Ian Richardson, director of Richardson & Richardson of Porite fract, was seeking a new international licence for four vehicles and four trailers before the North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Patrick Mulvenna. Richardson agreed that he had been a director of JR Tyres, but said he had taken a back seat from January 2001 and resigned in October of that year. Only two of the offences listed against JR Tyres had been committed while he was a director.
After the DTC said one of the problems had been drivers* hours and tachographs, Richardson said he proposed sending the tachograph records for outside analysis. Vehicle maintenance would also be contracted out. In reply to the DTC. Richardson said the other director of JR Tyres,David Singer, who had been disqualified from holding an 0-licence by TC Tom Macartney, had no connection whatsoever with Richardson & Richardson.
The DTC granted the licence after Richardson gave undertakings that Singer would have no connection with the operation, that tachograph records would be analysed by an independent firm and that planned maintenance inspections would be on a six weekly basis by Northern Commercials of Brighouse.