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No return for vehicle held after warning was ignored
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DESPITE BEING given a second chance when stopped without an 0-licence an operator continued to offend. As a result it has failed to win back the return of its impounded vehicle.
When London-based Equatorial Express & Contract Services appeared before South Eastern & Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps he refused to return the vehicle on the grounds that it was being used in connection with the company's trade or business, and that the company knew it needed an 0-licence.
The TC said that in August the vehicle, driven by director Jackson Bazenu, had been stopped in a roadside check. Bazenu was cautioned about its apparent unauthorised use and given details of the 0-licence requirements.
In September the vehicle was stopped at Dagen ham while laden with old refrigerator motors. Bazenu admitted that he had been stopped previously and advised to apply for an 0-licence, but claimed he had not had time to fill in the forms. After saying that the fridge motors might be for export.Bazenu declined to answer any more questions.
In his application for the return of the vehicle, Bazenu said:" I suppose technically it could be considered I was carrying goods in connection with making money, I was not doing it for profit and thought that I was really doing private work."
The TC said that although Bazenu had claimed to be carrying out private work in August, he made no such claim when stopped in September, but instead declined to answer questions about the use of the vehicle. By his own admission in September he knew of the 0-licensing system.