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£500 for prohibited vehicle

11th January 1996
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• Using a vehicle which was the subject of a prohibition notice has cost Stockport haulier Reginald Dillon, and his son Stephen £500 in fines and costs.

Stephen Dillon was fined 000 by the Buxton Magistrates for using a vehicle in breach of a prohibition notice; his father was fined £200 for permitting him to do so and each was ordered to pay £50 costs.

The magistrates heard that an empty 23-tonne six-wheeled tipper, driven by Stephen Dillon, was stopped in a check at Chapel-en-le-Frith in November. The previous month an immediate prohibition had been imposed at Whaley Bridge for two defective tyres, an inoperative rear fog light and a loose and leaking exhaust system: no application had been made for the removal of that prohibition, which was still in force.

In October Stockport Magistrates convicted Stephen Dillon of using the vehicle without an 0licence; of displaying an 0-licence identity disc with intent to deceive; and of paying the wrong rate of vehicle excise duty He was given a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay £214.16 back duty.

In a letter to the court, Stephen Dillon said that when he was pulled up and given the slip of paper with the jobs that had to be done on the vehicle, he had not realised he had to put the vehicle through another annual test as it had passed a test six weeks before. He thought that he only had to do the jobs that were pointed out to him. He fixed the faults the next day He told his father that he had been pulled up, that there were a couple of jobs that needed doing and that he had fixed them. He had not told him about the prohibition order as he had not understood what it meant.

When his father found out from the Department of Transport he took the 0-licence disc away from him. That meant he could no longer work the vehicle and he had been forced to sell it.

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Organisations: Department of Transport
Locations: Stockport

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