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No-show company fined £4,000

17th June 2004, Page 30
17th June 2004
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A WIRRAL OPERATOR, which ignored a court summons, has been fined more than £4,000 in its absence for using a vehicle that did not have a test certificate and was subject to a prohibition notice.

Bromborough-based Stockwest failed to appear to answer the charges before the Liverpool Magistrates and when the case was proved it was fined £4,085 in fines and costs.

Traffic examiner Sarah Bell said last August, a 7.5tonne Iveco Cargo vehicle belonging to the company was stopped in a roadside check at Speke. On inspection an 0-licence identity disc in the name of Stockwest was found, but no vehicle excise licence. On a check of the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency database it was found that the vehicle had last had an annual test on 29 October 2001 and that it was under prohibition for various defects found on 21

May 2002. When a director of the company, Stephen Bird, was interviewed,he had confirniedthat the company was using the Truck had 0-licence but no tax disc vehicle and was interviewed,he had confirniedthat the company was using the Truck had 0-licence but no tax disc vehicle and

employing the driver on the date of the check.

The magistrates fined the company £2,500 for using the vehicle while a mechanical prohibition was in force and £1,500 for using it with no test certificate in force. They also ordered the company to pay £85 prosecution costs. Summary NOT IMPRESSED

The magistrates took a dim view of the company's failure to appear to offer any explanation for using the vehicle in defiance of a prohibition notice, with all the resultant road safety implications.


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