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Three months jail for banned truck driver
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A KENT TRUCK DRIVER who drove while disqualified and uninsured has been jailed for three months. In a bizarre defence, he claimed he did not know he was disqualified because he did not open his post and had not read the disqualification notice.
Rodney Froud of Factory Road. Northfleet. Gravesend, pleaded guilty to eight offences of driving while disqualified, eight of driving without insurance, and one offence of driving without a driving licence, before the Harlow Magistrates. He asked for 60 similar offences to be taken into consideration.
Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for the Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (VOSA),said a two-axled rigid vehicle, driven by Froud, was stopped in a roadside check. Froud was unable to produce his driving licence and further enquiries showed he had been disqualified from driving for six months.Froud produced tachograph records showing that he had been driving on a number of occasions prior to the check.
A traffic examiner then obtained Froud's records from his employer. Froud had claimed to not know that a disqualification had been imposed. But he later accepted that he had received a letter from the Court stating that disqualification had been imposed.
Caroll Orr. for Frond, said that he had not realised that he had been disqualified because he had not been opening his mail. He had had no more than an inclination that he might have been disqualified.
Jailing Froud for three months, the magistrates said the offences were a blatant disregard of a court order aggravated by the driving of an HGV on the public road without insurance. Furthermore, the company that employed him was unaware that he had been disqualified. He had driven while disqualified for a considerable period and the magistrates considered that only a custodial sentence could be imposed.