Applicant Starts Operating Truck Before Licence Granted – Licence Granted as Applied for At Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry

The Applicant in this matter, represented at the Traffic Commissioner’s Public Inquiry by barrister Harry Bowyer, was spotted on ANPR cameras on some 30 occasions operating his truck for which he had neither operator’s licence nor interim granted. He seems to have genuinely failed to appreciate how serious the matter was for his future prospects in the industry and was appalled when Harry Bowyer told him his future. The applicant engaged a transport consultant to put his systems in and he put himself and his partners through an OLAC course and appeared in front of the Traffic Commissioner as a sadder, wiser man. The Traffic Commissioner accepted that the use of the truck was through ignorance rather than a deliberate snook being cocked at the regulatory system and granted the licence as applied for subject to a couple of undertakings.