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No return for truck on revoked licence
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A TRUCK impounded last November was displaying a disc from a company whose licence had been revoked. The vehicle's driver was not using a tachograph chart and there was an axle overload.
Owner Sures Patel. of Leigh-on-Sea. Essex, has been told the vehicle will not be returned because the fact he was applying for an 0-licence at the time proves he knew the vehicle was operating illegally.
South Eastern & Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps was told that when the vehicle was stopped it was displaying an 0-licence disc in the name of Westcliff Building Supplies. whose licence had been revoked in May 2004.The driver said he had driven the vehicle a few times for Southend Building Supplies, which is run by Patel.
When interviewed Patel said he had recently purchased the assets of SBS. He admitted that neither he nor the company held an 0-licence but said they were applying for one.
He declined to comment about his former links with Westcliff Building Supplies, or the display of that company's 0-licence disc, the failure of the driver to use a tachograph record or the 8% first-axle overload.
Finding that there were no grounds for the vehicle's return, theTC said that Patel had admitted the vehicle was being used to carry goods in connection with his business. By applying for an 0-licence he had shown that he knew the vehicle was being used without licence authority.