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Liverpool haulier buys truck back only to be caught again
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A Liverpool man, whose vehicle was impounded by the Vehicle Inspectorate, has been ordered to pay .€.1,350 for a catalogue of offences discovered when the vehicle was detained.
James Jones pleaded guilty before Deputy District Judge Morris at Liverpool Magistrates Court to the unauthorised use of the vehicle, and to using it in a dangerous condition.
Prosecuting for VOSA, John Heaton said that when the vehicle, a two-axled rigid skip loader in the livery of Al Skips, was detained in February 2002 it was found that one of eight bolts of the main propshaft coupling was missing and others were loose. If the propshaft had become detached, the consequences could have been horrendous.
The fuel tank filler cap was missing and a gardenIng glove was loosely inserted in the neck. The tachograph head was loose in the dash with no seals or calibration markings, and the seal and wire were missing from the gearbox connector.
The vehicle had been impounded after being knowingly used without a licence on a number of occasions 101lowing the revocation of an Operator's Licence held by Jones' wife Marguerita in July 2000.
TC Beverley Bell refused to return the vehicle on that occasion (CM 7-13 March 2002). It was believed that Jones had since bought it back. Jones admitted that he had been the owner and operator of the vehicle at the time it was detained. He said that his 0-licence was now in his daughter's name.
He claimed that the vehicle had been examined before he had been able to do a 'walk-around' check that morning, and if he had spotted the problems he would not have driven the vehicle on the road. He claimed to have had a brand new tachograph head with him in the car, and he had arranged for it to be fitted.
Finng, Jones a total of 11,200, and ordering him to pay £150 costs, Judge Morris said that operating without an 0-licence was a very serious matter for the industry. Janes had been in the industry for some time, he had no 0-licence and he had known this. The offence in regard to the vehicle's dangerous condition was a serious one, with the public being put at severe risk of injury if the propshaft had become detached.