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Mr. J. Else, West Midland LA, said he Id only give a warning to Mr. P. L. Taylor, ng as Taylor's Haulage, Lichfield, because is good reputation and fine record and use he accepted the explanations given regard to offences committed of overing and having no carrier's licence. The ion came at the end of a Section 174 iry in Birmingham last week.
Ir. Taylor had been fined E200 on each of counts of unauthorized use in July 1968 Ilkeston Court. For Taylor, Mr. D. E. ding said two new unlicensed vehicles, Nhich painting and certain modifications not yet been completed, had been taken the traffic manager in Mr. Taylor's absence, to carry out an essential disposal job. If it was not done night and morning the Massey Ferguson factory at Coventry came to a standstill. The vehicles had been stopped by East Midland Ministry officials as they were dumping their loads. There had been no deliberate dodging of payment for licences.
The £3 3s fine at Ebbw Vale Court on September 21 1967 had been on a Foden which was plated by the manufacturers for 26 tons but which was subsequently found to be eligible to carry only 24 tons. On that occassion heavy snow had saturated and made heavier the load en route, said Mr. Skelding.