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• Vehicle excise duty offences and the unauthorised use of a vehicle have led to the revocation of the six-vehicle licence held by David Constable, trading as Abbey Crane & Grab Hire, of Beaconsfield. Eastern Traffic Commissioner Brigadier Comp-ton Boyd also disqualified Constable from holding or obtaining a licence for two years.
In June 1994 the duration of the licence was cut after Constable was convicted of two vehicle. excise offences, for which he was ordered to pay fines and back duty totalling more than £20,000. Since then Constable had been in fines and back duty totalling £16,157, and an offence of the unauthorised use of a vehicle, for which he was fined £400.
Police said that prosecutions were pending for two further alleged vehicle excise offences and three alleged tachograph offences.
Constable told the TC that around March he found himself in a severe financial mss and was unable to tax the vehicles. He had decided to press on for the sake of his employees in the hope he could recover the situation.
Things had since improved and he was now nearly back on an even keel. As far as the unauthorised use was concerned, Constable admitted he was aware that he had no authority to use the vehicle concerned.
Boyd said that Constable had not learnt the lessons from the first public inquiry: his misdemeanours had multiplied and continued.
Constable could not be trusted with an 0-licence, and he was not satisfied that he continued to be of good repute.