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'Pay up or lose your licence'
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• Birmingham haulier Michael Donahue has until November to pay fines imposed for a number of Construction and Use offences, or face having his licence revoked.
Donahue, who holds an international licence for three vehicles, appeared at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry before West Midland Licensing Authority John Mervyn Pugh.
Donahue said a vehicle that had been given an immediate prohibition notice had been disposed of. The prohibition had led to his prosecution on four offences of using a vehicle with defective tyres and in a dangerous condition, for which he was fined 4500 for each offence. The court had ordered him to pay the fines at 425 a week, which was what he was doing.
Asked whether he could pay the whole amount straight away, Donahue said he had just taxed a couple of vehicles and he would need a couple of weeks. The court had decided that he paid £25 a week, he said.
The LA said the fines must be paid in full if Donahue was to retain his licence. He pointed out that since Donahue had been called to a meeting with the Traffic Area Clerk, at which he was given advice, a prohibition had been issued which was endorsed "a significant maintenance failure". It appeared that Donahue had not taken much notice of what had been said.
Donahue said he now only had two vehicles and maintained that he had been let down by a commercial garage. He said he had now made new maintenance arrangements with another contractor. The vehicles were being inspected monthly and he had an initial 100% pass rate at annual test. The prohibition had been imposed on a vehicle which should not have been on the road as it had been working on a sewage farm for a number of weeks.
Adjourning the proceedings until November, Mervyn Pugh said he wanted the vehicles to have new annual tests. On the next occasion he wanted to see the test certificates and a receipt from the magistrates' clerk showing that the fines had been paid.