Absent farmer's appeal is turned down
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G. B. Hunt
MIThe Transport Tribunal has turned down in his absence the appeal of a farmer against the revocation of his one-vehicle restricted licence.
Neither G. B. Hunt, of Berrybrook, Sedgehill, near Shaftesbury, Dorset, nor any representative appeared before the Tribunal. The appeals were considered on the basis of the transcripts of two public inquiries, correspondence, documents, and a memorandum from a neighbour of Hunt forwarded on his behalf.
The memorandum claimed that Hunt had not been in breach of his maintenance undertaking because for the first half of 1985 this vehicle was off the road awaiting repairs. This argument could not be accepted because the vehicle was still licensed and available for use; inspection records should have been maintained, says the Tribunal.
Hunt had been called to a public inquiry in November 1984 as a result of an unsatisfactory technical report and undertook to carry out maintenance inspections at intervals of two months or 4,000 miles and retain records for 15 months. In June a vehicle examiner placed a prohibition order on the vehicle and found there was no preventive maintenance system.