AK Express Scotland halted by industry regulator03 January 2018

Transport firm AK Express Scotland has been refused permission to operate HGVs, after the industry regulator found the licence application to be “a front”.

Scotland’s traffic commissioner Joan Aitken said the Linwood-based company was a front for Scott Smith, who cannot apply for a licence in his own name as he is the subject of a sequestration order (legal removal of assets).

Scott Smith is a director of SLA Transport, which is in compulsory liquidation. The sole director and shareholder listed for AK Express Scotland is Caroline Smith, Scott Smith’s mother.

After a public inquiry in Edinburgh last month, Aitken said the application “offends fair competition”.

She added: “In this case AK Express Scotland is the front, the means, whereby Scott Smith who would be unable to get a licence in his own name or be a company director, uses others – AK Express Scotland and his mother – to gain an operator licence.”

Author
Laura Cork

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