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• Nottingham-based Greenway Coaches has been given an absolute discharge for a series of offences including employing an unlicensed and unqualified driver and using vehicles without insurance.
Nottingham Magistrates accepted that the company had been hoodwinked by the driver concerned.
Prosecuting for the Eastern Traffic Area, Caroline Holden said that Trevor Farmer of Gilpet Lane. Nottingham, had obtained work with the company as a driver after falsely claiming that he held a PSV driving licence.
The company had accepted what Farmer said, without asking to see either his car or PSV driving licence. As Farmer was unqualified, the insurance cover for the vehicles he drove was invalid.
Farmer had never held a full licence of any description, said Holden. The only licence he had held was a provisional ordinary licence, and that had expired in 1975.
Farmer was fined 500 and disqualified from driving for two years for driving without a licence, driving PSVs without a PSV driving licence, and driving vehicles without insurance.