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Scrap dealer lost his grip
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A PRISON sentence broke a scrap dealer's hold on his four lorries, and caused his Operat Licence to be curtailed. The Transport Tribunal heard earlier this week that Withing (Hereford) dealer Reginald Smith had held an 0 licence for eight years and, despite his b( virtually illeterate, had an almost unblemished maintenance record.
Last year, however, he was jailed for six months for a VAT offence and, in his absence, one vehicle was found to have tyre and exhaust problems, another was served with a de fect notice for a tyre offe: and a third was served wi. GV9 for a tyre offence.
The West Midland Licen. Authority ordered that th licence be curtailed by removal of the two nev vehicles, judged to be in r ginally worse condition t the other pair, for two mon and for the licence to be minated prematurely on cember 31 this year.
Mr Smith's counsel, Clarkson, said that his cl was appealing against sentence, not the convict "The effect of the punishrT will outweigh the need for he added.
At the original hearing, Smith did not state that he been in prison, nor did he duce maintenance slips, wl he had kept meticulously. Clarkson offered to allow Smith to give new evidenc the tribunal, but its presid G. D. Squibb, said he could accept this.
"The tribunal cannot i; fresh evidence," he said. should work like a couri appeal."
Mr Clarkson added that grounds for removing newest lorries from the lice — a 16 tonner and a six wl 20-tonner — were margi The defects related to t3 and the exhaust system, tic mechanical units.
He said that Mr Smii livelihood suffered as the o vehicles were less capabh performing a day's work t the newer vehicles.
The tribunal agreed to a the suspension to apply to older vehicles, for the mor of June and July, but remainder of the sente applies. Full reasons for the juc ment will be given in writin a later date.