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AT a public inquiry before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, William Thomas Davison, of Rawmarsh, South Yorkshire, had his Class I licence renewed after the LA had given him the benefit of the doubt concerning possible alterations to his licence.
LA, Maj-Gen Carpenter, said in 1973 Mr Davison had been convicted of driving in a dangerous manner and disqualified for six months.
His old hgv licence had not been returned when he had applied for renewal, and enquiry showed that there might be some question of the dates having been altered on the licence.
Denying this, Mr Davison said he had surrendered his licence on disqualification. When he got his ordinary driving licence back he had applied for his hgv licence.
He was told it was all right for him to commence driving, that there was a waiting list for licences and it would take four to six months for it to come through.
He obtained a job and told the transport manager that he had applied for renewal of his licence and he gave him the number and details of his old licence.
After Maj-Gen Carpenter had commented that the tran-, sport manager had noted the dates of the currency of the licence as 1975 to 1978, Mr Davison said that perhaps the transport manager had put that down to cover himself.
Granting the licence, MajGen Carpenter said he was prepared to give Mr Davison another chance as he had bee driving for a very long time.
It was a condition of an hg licence that the LA be notifie of any disqualification an that the licence be surrendere in such circumstances.
No excuse would b accepted if anything like th' happened again, and h warned Mr Davison if he evE thought about altering licence, not to do so as it was very serious matter.