• The operation of vehicles from a base in Wolverhampton
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before being granted a licence in the West Midlands traffic area has led to AEB Transport (Midlands) of Barking being fined £2,400 with 05 costs by the Wolverhampton magistrates.
The company failed to appear in order to answer 12 charges of using its vehicles without a valid operator's licence.
Producing tachograph charts and invoices in respect of six vehicles for the months of April and May 1986, Barbara Stubbs, prosecuting for the Nest Midland Licensing Authority, said the charges were specimens of a large number of offences that had been committed.
The company had applied for an interim licence in the West Midlands on April 17 but that application was refused and it was not in fact granted a licence until June 1986. Despite that the vehicles were operated.
The magistrates found the charges proved after hearing evidence from a traffic examiner. Imposing the fines the chairman commented that a company the size of AEB should know what the law was.