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Unlicensed driver displayed forged disc
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USING A VEHICLE without an 0-licence and displaying a forged 0-licence identity disc in the windscreen cost Paul Mellor of Stoke-on-Trent,Staffordshire. £820 in fines and costs when he appeared before Buxton Magistrates.
Mellor, trading as P Mellor Transport, pleaded guilty to the unauthorised use of the vehicle and possession of a document resembling an 0-licence disc with intent to deceive, Prosecuting on behalf of Vosa, John Heaton said a traffic examiner had seen the vehicle, which was laden with large metal fabrications, parked at the roadside in Buxton, Derbyshire.
Mellor,who was driving the vehicle,confirmed that it was his. On checking the windscreen, the examiner noticed a blue paper disc, which, at first glance, he took to be a standard national 0-licence disc.
However, on inspection he saw it bore the details J & .1Transport, had an expiry date of July 2004 and a vehicle registration number, none of which appeared remotely relevant to the vehicle concerned, nor to Mellor. Checking the reverse of the disc, the examiner found there was no serial number.The examiner concluded it was a photocopy of a former valid disc for another vehicle and entity, or simply a forgery.
Mellor said he'd had to sell the lorry as he did not have an 0-licence, and was working as a mechanic.