Not qualified • Driving a minibus without being qualified, and
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failing to display a PSV licence identity disc cost Phylis Woodend, trading as Uiswick Airport Services, £250 in fines and costs when she appeared before magistrates. Woodend admitted both charges. The court heard that the 14-seater minibus, carrying three passengers, had been stopped in a check.
Woodend said that the PSV laws were very complicated and she had thought a public service vehicle was a vehicle picking up fare paying passengers on a highway. The passengers in question had not paid fares. She was working for a travel agent at the time. Woodend said she thought she did not need a PSV licence disc. She had taken the 14-seater as it was the only one with petrol at the time, and.a power strike prevented her from filling up a smaller vehicle.