Truck sale no excuse for faults
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tri Derbyshire haulier Robert
Vernon has paid £1,745 in fines, costs and back duty for using a vehicle without an excise licence and with a defective speed limiter, and for the fraudulent use of an excise licence.
Vernon, a partner in R Vernon Haulage of Chapel-en-le-Frith, admitted the offences when he appeared before the Ellesmere Port magistrates.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Albert Oldfield said that in December 1999 a four-axled tipper driven by Vernon was stopped in a check at the Dunkirk dynamic axle weighbridge.
When its excise licence was checked by vehicle examiner David ceilings, he noted that it applied to a Rover can On examination, the speed limiter cable was seen to be detached, allowing the driver to exceed the set speed at will.
When interviewed, Vernon had said that the speed limiter cable dropped off, disabling the truck. He had not repaired it as the vehicle was being sold to a man on the Isle of Bute where they did not need speed limiters or tachographs. The excise licence was from a car which had been returned to Rover, and was put in the truck salt was shortly to be sold.
Vernon thought it pointless to spend £250 on an unnnecessary speed limiter. He had not anticipated that the truck would take until December to sell.
Vernon received a conditional discharge for six months and fines of £500 for the lack of an excise licence, and 11,120 back duty with 1125 costs.