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Driving after Licence revoked Epping truck driver Matthew Savva, who

22nd May 2008, Page 32
22nd May 2008
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Page 32, 22nd May 2008 — Driving after Licence revoked Epping truck driver Matthew Savva, who
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had continued to drive trucks after the revocation of his licence, was fined £60 for driving without a licence and given four penalty points on his new licence by Harlow Magistrates.

Savva also pleaded guilty to not having an annual vehicle test certificate. He was fined a further .E60.

The court was told Savva had driven for eight years without realising his licence had been revoked.

Savva discovered that his licence had been revoked after being stopped by a Vosa officer in May 2007.

Although Savva argued his lack of knowledge was a defence to the charges, the magistrates found that the DVLA had undertaken reasonable attempts to bring it to his attention by writing to the three addresses they had on record for him — one of which was his parents' address. Savva had failed to surrender his licence for endorsement back in 1991, and this had led to the revocation.

OTC confirms conditions

South Eastern & Metropolitan Deputy Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps has refused to alter his decision to attach environmental conditions to an application by Greaves Surveying and Engineering to base four vehicles and two trailers at a site in Lenham Heath.

The DTC had refused an application by Subzero (2003) to base three vehicles at a site in Lenham Heath after representations from neighbouring residents, but couldn't refuse the Greaves application because there had been no environmental objections to that application.

In granting the Greaves application with a condition limiting the times of operation and vehicle size, the DTC said he regretted he couldn't refuse it because no objections or representations had been made (CM I May). Buying Licence costs £700 fine Purchasing an 0-licence disc from another operator has cost Dagenham-based Richard O'Connor, trading as A & B Transport, £700 in fines and costs.

O'Connor had pleaded guilty to using a vehicle without an 0-licence before Harlow Magistrates.

Prosecuting for Vosa, Jacqueline Devonish said that when he was interviewed by a traffic examiner, O'Connor alleged Nicholas Morton, the company secretary of CSM Haulage, had sold him the disc for £30.

Devonish told the court that O'Connor had not applied for a licence to avoid paying the fcc of £354. He had used the CSM Haulage licence disc on his vehicle since February 2007.

O'Connor was fined £300 and ordered to pay £400 towards the costs of the prosecution.

The hearing of a charge of aiding and abetting O'Connor's offence against CSM Haulage was adjourned until a later date.


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