LA expects to revoke licence
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• Adjourning consideration of disciplinary action against Dudley ownerdriver Derr'ck Landell, West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh warned the licence would probably be revoked.
Landell, of School Street. Dudley, was called before the LA following convictions for handling a stolen vehicle excise licence, the fraudulent use of a vehicle excise licence, the fraudulent use of an 0-licence identity disc, using a vehicle without an 0-licence, and the use of an unauthorised operating centre.
For Landell, Jonathan Leader said he had been in business for about 16 years. At the time of the offences Lindell had been going through a very had patch financially. Somebody offered him an excise licence at a knock-down price, and, stupidly, Landell bought it. The 0-licence offences arose when he bought a new vehicle and inadvertently failed to apply to have it specified on his licence. He took the licence disc out of the old vehicle and put it in his new vehicle.
Mervyn Pugh said the problem was the two offences of fraud which went to the very root of the licensing system.
Leader said they were the first offences of that nature Landell had committed in 16 years of operation and he had since attempted to put the situation right. His financial situation had improved. Only one vehicle was on the road at the moment, which Lindell drove himself; the other had not been used on the road since February He appreciated that he had put his whole livelihood in jeopardy. If he lost his licence, Landell was unlikely to work again because of his age.
Leader said the problem over the operating centre arose because Landell's authorised operating centre tended to be full so he had been using premises in Quarry Bank. He was seeking authority to use those premises in his renewal application which was also before the LA.
Asked why he had not Mervyn Pugh: declared Adjourned action. the con
victions in the application form, or notified the LA when they arose, Landell said he could not write very well and his wife had filled the form in.
Mervyn Pugh said when somebody else filled in an application form, it was up to the operator to check it very carefully Adjourning the proceedings. Mervyn Pugh said Landell had not been given notice that he proposed taking into account his failure to declare or notify the convictions. Natural justice demanded Landell should be aware of what he was to face,