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Finn fails to win back unlicensed truck
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EUROS LONDON has failed in its bid to have returned a vehicle which was impounded by VOSA in London on 5 July.
The company, trading as Euros Engineering, had applied to South Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner Christopher Heaps for its return on the grounds that it had been unaware it was being used without licence authority.
The TC heard that the vehicle, which was loaded with steel, had been displaying an 0-licence identity disc in the name of Cornwall Parker. The driver, Laxman Pindoria, had said he was employed by Euros Engineering. When interviewed, the sole director of that company, Vijay Kara, had admitted that it did not have a valid 0-licence.
Kara claimed he believed an application had been made by a colleague, but unfortunately that individual went on holiday and the application form had not been posted.A licence had now been applied for, he added.
Asked when that application had been made, Kara had replied that he did not know, but that "someone was sorting it out".
In June the company had been fined £500 for using a vehicle without an 0-licence and £1,000 for failing to use a tachograph.
Refusing to return the vehicle, the TC pointed out that the company had been convicted of using a vehicle without a licence only a month before it was impounded. He therefore decided that it knew it needed an 0-licence.