P Plant and PGC Skip Hire - successors to collapsed haulier Roeacre Industries - have lost their appeal against a refusal to grant them an O-licence.
Upper Tribunal Judge Jacqueline Beech upheld the June decision of Simon Evans, North Western Traffic Area Deputy Traffic Commissioner (DTC) when he rejected applications from husband and wife Peter and Sharon Cordwell for licences authorising six vehicles and five trailers for P Plant based in Bury, and six vehicles for Heywood-based PGC.
In December 2010, HMRC issued a winding-up petition against Roeacre - a business operated by the Cordwells - in respect of unpaid PAYE and national insurance contributions to the value of £495,000.
Roeacre, authorised to run 11 vehicles and 6 trailers, was placed in voluntary administration in January 2011.
The Cordwells immediately applied for interim O-licences for their businesses P Plant and PGC Skip Hire, but the DTC decided to defer the decision.
In April this year, a VOSA traffic examiner involved in a mobile check on the East Lancs Road spotted a tipper truck with the livery PGC Demolition, not displaying an O-licence disc.
The driver stated that he was employed by PGC Skip Hire and that it was the company operating the vehicle.
VOSA tachograph checks showed that PGC had been operating vehicles unauthorised from January.
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