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Licence error costs dearly
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Be nfleet based Geoffrey Cook has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling 1700 for an axle overload and permitting an unqualified driver to drive a vehicle.
Anthony Ostrin, appearing for the VI, told Barking magistrates that when a 7.5-tonner loaded with building materials was stopped in a weight check the first axle was found to be overloaded by 400kg (13,8%). The driver. Barry Graham, was unable to provide a licence for that class of vehicle.
Cook maintained that he thought Graham had a licence to drive the vehicle. He was fined £500 with £200 costs.
Graham pleaded guilty to using the vehicle with an overloaded first axle and driving It without the required licence. He told the magistrates he had passed a driving test in South Africa and thought that this qualification permitted him to drive a vehicle of that class without having to apply for an additional licence. The court was told it was an honest and genuine mistake.
Graham was fined 1300 with £200 costs but the magistrates found special reasons for not endorsing his driving licence.