Stockwell has to pay
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• Coventry-based Stockwell Transport has been ordered to pay fines, costs and back duty totalling £2,778.43 within 28 days.
The company failed to appear before Solihull Magistrates to answer allegations that it had not only used a vehicle without an excise licence and a ministry plate, which was not specified on its operators licence, but also that it had twice failed to ensure that the driver returned his tachograph charts within 21 days and failed to keep the tachograph running on four occasions.
Prosecuting for the West Midlands Licensing Authority, Barbara Stubbs said that a 16 tonne vehicle belonging to the company was stopped in a check while carrying a load of chipboard on 10 April. Traffic Examiner, David Davies noticed that there was no excise licence on display, no licence identity disc displayed and no ministry plate.
An examination of the tachograph charts showed that the driver had failed to operate the mode switch on four occasions and charts dated 16 and 17 March ought to have been returned to his employer.