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Loan of 0-licence disc costs guilty duo more than £1,500
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A retired operator professes to having done a 'silly thing by lending his 0-licence disc to his successor as magistrates fine both men.
RETI RED haulier has narrowly escaped jail or lending an 0-licence disc to the operator .aking over his business. The offence cost the women £1,550 in fines and costs.
Stephen Blackman of Rumford, Essex )leaded guilty to using a goods vehicle for lire and reward when he did not hold an 0icence. The retiring operator. Richard Evans Haverhill. Suffolk, pleaded guilty to lending in 0-licence identity disc to Blackman with ntent to deceive.
Vlisjudgement anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for VOSA, told be Barking magistrates that a 13-tonner driven 33, Blackman had been stopped at a roadside :heck in Dagenham. Traffic examiner Fred;rick Linger had noted that its 0-licence disc lad been issued to Richard Evans, trading as R E vans (Haulage Contractor).
Blackman had admitted he was the owner ind operator of the vehicle. He said Evans had -etired; he had taken over the business and 3ought the truck.
When interviewed, Evans confirmed this ;tory. adding that Blackman had also taken wethis work.
Blackman said Evans had done him a favour )y lending him the disc but now realised what le did was wrong. Evans told the court it had been a"silly thing to do". Blackman knew he wanted to retire and he understood Blackman was applying for an 0-licence in his own name so he had agreed to lend him the licence disc for two weeks.
Ostrin told the court the incident had taken place in April 2005, but by September Blackman had still not applied for an 0-licence.
Fining Blackman £350 with £250 costs, the magistrates said if they had thought there had been a deliberate attempt to defraud he would have been looking at a much harsher penalty.
Evans was fined 000 with £250 costs. The magistrates said as an operator he should have known better. They accepted he had been helping a friend, concluding: "If you had been doing anything other than helping a friend and this had not been a mere tnisjudgement, you would have been facing custody."•