0-licence bid "back to front'
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A West Wales farmer who sells topsoil has been granted a restricted 0licence despite admitting that he had used his vehicle without one. David John Clarke, of Carmarthen, was seeking a onevehicle licence before Welsh TC David Dixon.
Clarke told Dixon that he bought his vehicle last July and had immediately applied for a licence. However, the Traffic Area Office in Birmingham said it had never received the application.
Clarke admitted last September Haverfordwest magistrates convicted him of using a vehicle with a fatty tachograph and gave him a conditional discharge. He had received another conditional discharge from Swansea magistrates for using a vehicle without an 0-licence. Fie said th he then submitted a further licence applicatio Referring to the tachograph fault, he said: "It wa n't working properly. Water had got into the mec anism and shorted it out." Clarke said the top-si venture was separate from his farming wor which wasn't proving very profitable.
Granting the licence, the TC warned Clarke: "Quite clearly you have got off on the wrong foot—you have done everything back to front. I will be watching you quite closely."