Nab for permits
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• International road haulage permit offences cost Malcolm Walker £3,250 in fines and costs when he appeared before Andover magistrates.
Walker, trading as Karri-Mor Transport, pleaded guilty to six offences of making false statements to obtain permits; 12 of using permits with intent to deceive; and 12 of allowing permits to be used unlawfully by another operator.
For the prosecution, Maureen Truss said that the offences before the court, which were specimen offences, had come to light during a larger police investi
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gation. An Operator's Licence had been held in the Metropolitan Traffic Area by Walker Enterprises, trading as Karri-Mor Transport, a company run by Walker. That company went into liquidation in March 1989 and its licence became invalid.
Walker, who worked as a subcontractor for Bulldog International Transport Express, had not informed the authorities of the company's collapse and had continued to apply for permits under its name.
Walker said that while he was in the process of trying to rebuild his business he had not thought about the fact that his former company's licence was invalid.