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Spud merchant escapes roasting after disc error
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A Cheshire potato merchant escaped with just a warning after it was revealed that the Traffic Area Office had sent him Operator Licence discs in error, when he appeared before the North Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell.
Preston on the Mill-based Carlton Pass, trading as DJ Pass & Sons, appeared before the TC at a Trafford disciplinary inquiry.
Deputy TC Brian Homer suspended Pass' licence indefinitely in October 1989 when he refused to answer questions about alleged unauthorised use because of a pending prosecution. At the same time Vaud Trucks, a company run by Pass' wife, was granted interim authorey to operate two vehicles. For Pass, Andrew Woolfall said that the unauthorised use allegation was dropped and Pass was fined £500 for an overloading offence.
Conceding that the Youd Trucks licence had been revoked earlier this year, Pass said the idea had been for Youd Trucks to buy potatoes in bulk and Da Pass & Sons would do the distribution. He had had nothing to do with the management of Youd Trucks, but he had driven for them on occasions. He claimed the revocation had had a big impact on their profits.
Pass began operating again in the summer of 2000, using a 15-tonne vehicle, after the Traffic Area Office mistakenly sent him a licence identity disc, even though his licence remained suspended.
Pass said that he had been under the impression the suspension had been lifted and the TC said that she accepted that he had not deliberately operated without a licence.
Pass agreed that his HGV licence had been revoked because of drivers' hours and tachograph problems when Youd Trucks lost their licence. He said that he had since been on a tachograph course. In addition, a traffic examiner had examined his tachograph records over the summer and had found no faults. There had also been a maintenance investigation which had resulted in a satisfactory report.
Accepting that he had a chequered history over the issue of prohibition notices, Pass said he had not received a single prohibition since he had begun operation in the summer of 2000.
He agreed to operate only a 15-tonne truck until his HGV licence was returned, have his vehicle inspected every eight weeks and to have it roller brake tested four times a year.