Pugh suspends Leadbeater licence
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• The sixail vehicle licence
held by Tam worth tipper operator John Leadbeater has been suspended indefinitely, by West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh.
Leadbeater, of Grendon Road, Polesworth, had applied for renewal in respect of six vehicles and two trailers, at a Birmingham public inquiry.
Questioned about a conviction at Atherstone in April for failing to surrender a void excise licence, Leadbeater agreed that he had sent a cheque for 21,089 in payment for a sixmonth licence which had been dishonoured. He said that a sum of 21,916 he expected to be paid into his bank account had been two days late. As far as he could recall, it had never happened before.
Mervyn Pugh said that his information from the DVLC was that Leadbeater's regular practice was to bounce cheques and use the vehicles for a month and then return the discs without paying any duty.
Leadbeater admitted there had been other occasions, and Mervyn Pugh said that exactly the same procedure had been adopted eight times.
After Leadbeater had said that the fines imposed at Atherstone were currently being paid off in instalments, Mervyn Pugh said that he took the view that such an arrangement put an operator's financial standing in jeopardy. The hearing was adjourned.