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• West Yorkshire hauliers John and Stephen Jebson have been warned that they cannot contimie to operate vehicles registered to Hicks Haulage without a hiring or loan agreement.
The brothers, trading as Jebson Tipper Hire, of Denby Dale, have a licence for 10 vehicles and two trailers. They appeared at disciplinary proceedings before North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner H Anthony Richardson. The company wanted an additional operating centre at premises in Birstall belonging to Albert Hicks, a director of Hicks Haulage.
DOT vehicle examiner Mark Millard said four immediate prohibitions had been imposed on vehicles this year. During a fleet check he found one vehicle on which its load sensing valve and associated linkages removed. Another had different sizes of tyres on the second axle. Six of the seven specified vehicles were registered to Hicks Haulage.
John Jebson said the ownership of one vehicle had been taken over by its driver. That vehicle was operated on the firm's licence on the firm's work: it was a business within a business.
Richardson said things could not be done that way. There was a belief in the haulage industry that as long as someone had a licence anyone could operate under it — but that was not the case. Issuing a strong warning, but granting the additional operating centre, Richardson said the partners were not authorised to operate vehicles that were not hired or loaned to them in any way.
He wanted a copy of any hiring or loan agreement to be entered into produced as soon as possible, with a list of the vehicles they wanted to operate under the licence.