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Breakdow wins test rtic
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A BLACKPOOL commercial vehicle dealer had 17 charges relating to the use of a recovery vehicle dismissed by the town's magistrates last week in what could prove to be a test case.
Blackpool Commercial Sales Ltd, prosecuted by the North Western Licensing Authority, faced five charges of using a trailer without a test c tificate; without a plating c tificate; without an '0' licen failing to cause a current cord to be kept and failing maintain a register of dri record books.
Jonathan Lawton, pro cuting, said the company de in and repaired secondha commercial vehicles a trailers and was the holder three sets of trade plates.
On May 12 a driver was sent with an articulated unit t6 collect a van.
The tractive unit had been acquired in March and was taxed until the end of October.
The trailer had been specially reconstructed and was a semi low-loader, the platfor extending over the rear wheels and tilting down, used with two detachable ramps.
It was fitted with a winch, and a wire ran from the step in the frame along the centre of the trailer to the rear.
The complete outfit had been to a firm in Trafford Park to collect a van which had been purchased in a brokendown state.
A traffic examiner said the vehicle was displaying its own registration number and a valid tax disc at the front. No trade plate was visible and there was no number plate at all at the rear of the trailer.
The driver told the court he always operated under trade plates and the front plate had been propped up against the windscreen.
He could not now be certain whether he had the rear number plate that day and lost it or whether he lost it the day before.
Company director John Wilson said the outfit was re gularly used for the collection of disabled vehicles and he felt it was a perfectly proper use of trade plates.
J. A. Backhouse, defending, said three questions had to be decided: was the vehicle being used under trade plates; was it a breakdown or recovery vehicle; and whether, if the company owned the load, it could properly be described as a disabled vehicle.
So far as the plating and testing regulations were concerned, if it was a breakdown vehicle it was exempt.
It was also exempt from the other regulations if used under trade plates and no '0' licence was required.