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No return for impounded vehicle after favour to friend
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EDINBURGH PAVING Company (EPC) has lost its bid to have an impounded vehicle returned. It appeared before Scottish Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken at an Edinburgh public inquiry.
Traffic examiner Keven Watson said the vehicle had been stopped in a check on the Edinburgh City Bypass in September 2006. It was displaying an 0licence disc in the name of Dale A Coull, trading as Fife UK Transport Services, of Kirkcaldy. However, the vehicle livery was that of EPC and the vehicle registration number was a cherished number plate relating to that company.
Lisa Gillespie had confirmed that she was Edinburgh Paving Company's MD and that the firm was the owner of the vehicle.
When interviewed, Coull had said he had put the vehicle on his licence as a favour to his friend Colin Gillespie, Lisa's husband and a driver for EPC.
Lisa Gillespie said she was aware of the requirement to have an 0-licence but she thought using Coull's licence would be valid and legal. The Gillespies had not applied for a licence because they were renting premises from Midlothian Council and were led to believe by the estates manager that they would not be allowed to use the premises as an operating centre.
Aitken said she was in no doubt that the Gillespies had blatantly disregarded the requirement to have an 0-licence. She was not persuaded that the presence and issuing of the blue 0-licence disc made the company director consider that she was compliant with the law.These were not the actions of honest and reasonable people.