Convicted instructor is training truck drivers
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• A man who was imprisoned in 1994 for masterminding a bogus car driving licence scam is now offering truck driving training.
Pat Brann, a qualified car driving instructor, contacted CM about Peter Plains, owner of the Bains School of Motoring in Hayes, Middlesex, after claiming the training he was offering was sub-standard.
Despite paying Bains a total of £368 for seven hours of training and the test, he says the tuition he received was virtually useless. "When I was reversing I kept looking through the back window on purpose when I should have been looking at the mirrors," says Brann, "but I was not corrected." Brann adds that lie deliberately failed to check his blind spot, and used the wrong gears to make the vehicle stall. Again, he says the instructor offered him no advice.
Since then it has emerged that Peter Bains, who at the time of the trial was known as Ajit Bains, was jailed for two years after pleading guilty to five charges of dishonestly obtaining or attempting to obtain driving test pass certificates for learneidrivers. Applicants paid £400 for experienced drivers to take tests in their name.
The sentence was reduced to one year in July 1994 after Bains took his case to the Court of Appeal.
This case has once again
• highlighted the lack
of controls on train ing providers in the HGV sector.
Bains refused to speak to CM.
El The Peter Bains mentioned in this story is not the recently retired Glasgow-based senior driving