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Finance company awaits impounding decision
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A FINANCE COMPANY is awaiting a decision on whether one of its trucks will be returned after it was impounded while stopped, with an expired 0-licence disc on display.
Close Asset Finance is expecting the decision from North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney after the truck was said to have been rented out by the director of a company that had lost its 0-licence. Traffic examiner Stephen Foster said the vehicle, which was laden with timber, had been stopped in a check south of Doncaster. The driver stated that he was employed by JI Commercials of Nottingham and was in possession of a hire agreement. JI Commercials held a licence for four vehicles, with two in possession. The 0-licence disc displayed was in the name of Timber International:The registered keeper of the vehicle was Michael Burgess, who was leasing the unit from Close Asset Finance.
Burgess, a director of Timber International, said that he had hired the vehicle to JI Commercials and had forgotten to take the disc out of the windscreen, Subsequent enquiries revealed that Timber International's licence ' been revoked in July.
Foster maintained that a delivery note showed that the vehicle being operated by Burgess. For Close Asset, Michelle Murphy said it had written to Burgess asking for a copy of his 0-licence. When copy was received, there was no expiry date. Enquiries of the Tn Area showed that he did not have a licence. Howe Close Asset was told the vehicle was on a licence hel Timber International.
Sharon Shawbury, a Close Asset employee, said the company was satisfied when it saw a copy of Timber International licence as Burgess was a dire of that company.
Shawbury also said that a new system was being p place enabling them to check the validity of 0-lice annually She agreed that under the old system next time a check would have been made on Tir International's licence would have been at the ei date in 2007.