Aluminium Shapes, which had its O-licence revoked by Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner (DTC) Miles Dorrington, has successfully appealed the decision after a judge said the ruling was "seriously flawed".
Upper Tribunal Judge Mark Hinchliffe overturned the decision of DTC Dorrington, who had also suspended the Corby-based company’s licence for two vehicles at a public inquiry in February.
Aluminium Shapes made an O-licence application in September 2006, with the directors listed as Geoff Poyner, Paul Doran and Darren Henry.
In September 2010, Vosa officers at a weighbridge in Ross-on-Wye inspected a vehicle being run by the firm.
However, they discovered that the directors of Aluminium Shapes were actually Michael Meyer and Martin Cooke, who had no background in transport, and who had only been vaguely aware that their colleagues had applied for a licence.
At the inquiry, the DTC said that in his view the whole application for this licence had been "patently false" and void from the outset.
However, Hinchliffe said if the DTC found the licence to be void from the outset, it was not logical for him to make directions suspending and revoking it.
He said that the case should be re-heard by a different TC, and added: "We conclude that the process of this public inquiry was seriously flawed and the outcomes are plainly wrong."
