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Licence deceit costs operator £1,350
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A STRING OF licence offences and the use of an unqualified driver have cost Rornford-based Wakefield Fabrications £1,350 in fines and costs.
The company admitted the offences before the Harlow magistrates. It was fined £500 for fraudulently using a vehicle excise licence, £360 for using a vehicle when no excise licence was in force, and £240 for causing a person to drive without a licence, plus £250 costs.
Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for VOSA, said that when a Ford operated by the company was stopped at a roadside check a traffic examiner noticed that the tax disc, which had expired, had been issued to a Leyland Dat The driver, Marcus Hunt, did not have a licence for that class of vehicle and the vehicle did not even belong to Wakefield Fabrications. It was, in fact, owned by Julian Morris of Farnham Road,Ilford, who had failed to notify the DVLA that he was the vehicle's new keeper.
When interviewed, a representative of the company had said that its own vehicle was not available at the time and it had borrowed the vehicle from Morris in good faith.
Hunt had initially refused to drive the vehicle because it was not taxed, so someone at Wakefield Fabrications had removed an excise licence from an old vehicle which was no longer in use and put it in the windscreen.
Hunt was fined £150 with £150 costs for driving without a licence. Morris was fined £100 for failing to report the change of ownership and £100 for using the vehicle without an excise licence with £200 costs.