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NORTH-WESTERN DEPUTY Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe granted a new licence to a Manchester company that operated vehicles after a predecessor company's licence was revoked — but immediately suspended it for a month.
Irlam-based Flynn Construction Manchester applied for a new licence authorising the operation of six vehicles and three trailers. Last September the licence held by its predecessor company, Flynn Construction, was revoked after that company went into administration.
The Deputy TC was told that Flynn had continued to operate following the revocation.
The administrators had not taken possession of the vehicles, which had left the company's premises very early in the morning to avoid detection. When one of the vehicles was stopped in November, the driver reported that other vehicles were being operated in the Farnworth area that day. The trailer was given a delayed prohibition.
A second vehicle stopped in December had no test certificate or vehicle excise licence and was issued with an immediate prohibition. In both cases the vehicles had been displaying revoked licence discs.
Vehicle examiner Martin Garlick told the inquiry that in January a vehicle had been stopped in a mobile check which was run with the police and after examining it he imposed an immediate prohibition. The vehicle was displaying a licence disc for the revoked licence and that was seized.
Examiners visited the company's premises later that day and seized a second disc they found displayed in a vehicle parked up on the site.
Flynn told the DTC he had sold his personal property to pay off debts and set up the new company. He added that he had bought the vehicles from the administrators.They had not been used since January when he had a long discussion with the vehicle examiner. The vehicle without tax and MoT should not have been on the road.
He did not know why the previous licence discs had not been returned.