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Examiner identifies false-name haulier

11th December 1997
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• A Deeside zt, haulier who had

denied driving a lorry away from a

Customs compound was convicted of a number of offences after he was identified in court by a senior traffic examiner.

Paul Glendenning, of Green Lane, Shotton, had pleaded not guilty before Rochdale magistrates to driving the vehicle when not the holder of an LGV driving licence; to failing to give his name and address to an examiner; and to failing to use a mcho chart.

Senior traffic examiner Anthony Smith said he spent 20 minutes interviewing the driver of the vehicle, who had collected it from the Customs & Excise yard at Cheadle. The driver gave his name as Patrick Barker with an address in St Helens.

In November 1996, Smith added, he visited premises in Liverpool with traffic examiner Geoffrey Whitley They walked into the office and Whitley had said "hello Paul" to a man sitting at a desk. He could see it was the man he knew as Patrick Barker.

Smith told the magistrates he was positive the defendant was the same person who had been driving the lorry.

David Jones, managing director of Clwyd Transport Services, said that during the summer of 1996 some of his work was subcontracted to Glendenning.

Denying he had been the dri

ver of the vehicle, Glendenning said he knew Patrick Barker. He was a bit elusive and a bit of a "jump jockey" for Northern Irish haulier Derry Brothers, which also had a base in St Helens.

Rosalind Matthews said the lorry had been owned by her and her ex-partner, Mark Basnett, trading as MRS International Transport which became insolvent. The vehicle was left at the premises of Derry Brothers.

She understood the vehicle was impounded by Customs & Excise because of untaxed fuel. She had to prove ownership and sort out its release. Derry Brothers' transport manager David Warburton arranged for a driver from Derry Brothers to drive the vehicle. She could definitely say that it was not Glendenning.

The magistrates fined Glendenning a total of £230 with £200 costs. Glendenning pleaded not guilty to making a false declaration in order to obtain an LGV driving licence: that case was adjourned.


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