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NO AMBIGUITY
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NO change has been made by the pronouncement last week by the Queen's Bench Divisional Court that a tractor unit and semi-trailer must, for driving licence purposes, be treated as a single vehicle.
The court were hearing appeals by Raymond Moscrop, a young driver, and his employer, Richard Wills, of Warwick Bridge, against convictions by the Carlisle justices, when it was alleged that Moscrop, then aged 18, was driving a 3-ton 19-cwt. articulated vehicle.
In the magistrates' court and during the appeal it was submitted that the tractor was the only vehicle involved, and what was attached to It was a trailer, and therefore the "heavy motorcar" ban on drivers below the age of 21 did not apply. The court, dismissing the appeals, ruled that though built separately, articulated vehicles were one vehicle, and Moscrop was therefore under age.
Their decision has now removed any possible ambiguity so far as drivers' licences are concerned. But as regards carriers' licences, tractors and trailers are still considered to be separate units requiring separate licences.