Owner-driver fails to pursue appeal
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• A Scunthorpe owner-driver, who had been ordered to pay fines, back duty and costs totalling more than £1,500 after being convicted by the Leigh magistrates of a series of offences, failed to appear at Bolton Crown Court. He was due to appeal against both the convictions and the amount of the fines and back duty.
Joseph Taylor, of Melbury Walk, Scunthorpe, had been con• victed of using a vehicle without an Operator's Licence; with a defective and unsealed tachograph which had not been calibrated in the previous two years; and with the wrong rate of vehicle excise duty. He was also using a trailer without a current test certificate and failed to pro
duce his driving licence. He was fined £710 and ordered to pay back duty of £775 with prosecution costs of £55.
The magistrates were told that when Taylor's artic was stopped in March last year it was carrying pallets after delivering to two supermarkets. It was displaying an 0-licence disc in the name of JE Taylor and a vehicle excise licence issued at the disabled rate of nil duty instead of the correct rate of £3,100 per annum.
Taylor appeared in December when his appeal first came before the Crown Court, but his case was adjourned because of a lack of court time.
Dismissing Taylor's appeal when there was no answer when the case was called, Judge Timothy George directed that he pay £125 towards the prosecution's appeal costs.