Operating on a ?surrendered? licence

In a recent public inquiry before Deputy Traffic Commissioner Nick Denton, Roger Arnold trading as R A International lost both his good repute and his operators? licence. He held a sole trader goods vehicle standard international operator licence for five vehicles and six trailers, granted in 2002. Mr Richard Arnold was the named transport manager for the company.

In May 2022, a vehicle specified on Roger Arnold?s licence had been stopped by DVSA at the roadside on 29 September 2021. It was displaying a disc in the name of Midland Bulk Services Ltd. This company?s licence had been surrendered by its liquidators in June 2021, after it had entered liquidation in April 2021. The vehicle was also being driven by Ryan Kembery, a former director of Midland Bulk Services Ltd until shortly before it had entered liquidation. The registered keeper of vehicle was Ryan Kembery.

Mr Kembery was now the sole director of Midlands Aggregates Ltd, a company which does not hold an operator?s licence. the analogue tachograph charts in Mr Kembery?s possession showed that he was the sole and regular driver of the vehicle.