[2023] UKUT 250 (AAC)

At the hearing of this appeal, Mr Sandhu represented the company. He repeated the above points and averred that as he had not been operating any vehicles, he had not been using his operating centre. Moreover, the company’s correspondence address had changed last year when he had moved and he had forgotten to inform the OTC of the change. It was for these reasons that he did not receive the recorded delivery letters. As for the emailed copy, he had not checked the company’s email account between 12^th February 2023 and 20^th March 2023 and was therefore unaware of the need to communicate with the OTC. He had only found out about the revocation when the man who had helped him with his licence application, informed him of it. Mr Sandhu was not aware of the VOL system and as a result, had never logged onto it.

Mr Sandhu accepted that he was aware of Mr Mandair’s resignation at the time he informed the OTC of it, although he did not think that “it would happen so soon”. He further accepted that the TC’s decision to revoke his licence was not plainly wrong and that he was responsible for the position in which he found himself. Whilst the loss of his licence was a lesson for the future, he nevertheless asked the Tribunal to give him another chance.