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• North Eastern Deputy Licensing Authority George Smedley has ad cence renewal bid by South Shields-based Marchant Road Transport Contractors. He is giving the company three months to produce up-to-date accounts. Marchant had applied to renew its international licence for one vehicle and one trailer. The Deputy Licensing Authority was considering its conviction on two offences of taxing a vehicle at the wrong rate and one of using a vehicle without an excise licence. Company secretary and director Kenny Marchant said it was a specialist business, transporting meat to Spain and Germany, returning loaded with fruit. He was reluctant to tax his vehicle at the full rate as there were very few occassions when it travelled loaded in this country. He had worked out that if he taxed it at 23,000, he would have used only 272 of that in a year. The DVLC had been very reluctant to tax the vehicle at the private light goods rate of 2100 a year. The two offences of using a vehicle when the wrong rate of duty had been paid arose when the vehicle was empty and he had pleaded guilty by letter without taking legal advice. He now accepted that the vehicle must be fully taxed when running in this country — no matter how unfair he felt that to be.