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New licence is granted after firm's founder leaves
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A FRESH LICENCE has been granted to a Merseyside firm after an inquiry heard that its founder was no longer involved. His offences had included health and safety convictions relating to the death of an employee.
Birkenhead-based McCoy Brothers had sought a new restricted licence for three vehicles from NorthWestern TC Beverley Bell.
Its previous four-vehicle national licence had been revoked in September. Transport manager Brendan McCoy was found to have lost his repute following vehicle maintenance problems, failures to comply with undertakings given at two previous public inquiries and Health and Safety Executive convictions following the death of an employee while dismantling a tugboat.
For the company, Michael Cunningham said the application was being made in order for the firm, which runs a metal recycling plant, to be able to continue to operate hook-lift vehicles.There had been a substantial change since the public inquiry. Brendan McCoy, who started the business as a 16-year-old, was no longer part of the company.
Managing director Paul Nother, McCoy's son-inlaw, said that in the past his hands had been tied by McCoy. McCoy now had no influence over the way the company was run. Not her was a CPC holder himself and the maintenance contractor had since been changed. The TC said that using a third-party maintenance provider was not an insurance policy and it must be monitored.
In granting the licence, the Te took into account a report from a transport consultant.