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Vehicles kept in wrong place

4th April 1996, Page 18
4th April 1996
Page 18
Page 18, 4th April 1996 — Vehicles kept in wrong place
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• Derek Chidgey, trading as AB Metals, of Taunton, has had his three-vehicle licence revoked for failing to keep them at the authorised operating centre.

Western Traffic Commissioner Air Vice Marshal Ronald Ashford said that when Chidgey's licence was granted in 1994 he stated that his vehicles would be kept at the premises of R&A Commercials which would also maintain the vehicles. R&A had written to say the vehicles had never been kept at its site.

In May 1995 Chidgey was told by a traffic examiner that he had no authority to park his vehicles at Woodlands Road, Taunton, and he must use his authorised operating centre, Despite that the vehicles continued to be parked at Woodlands Road and in July Chidgey was convicted of using an unauthorised operating centre and fined £125. The traffic examiner had reported that the vehicles were still being parked at Woodlands Road in July, August and September.

Chidgey agreed that he had never parked the vehicles at R&A Commercials' premises, and that he had no intention of doing so. Chidgey said that after making the application he was told that vehicles were constantly being broken into in that area. For the future, the vehicles would be maintained by a garage in Bridgwater and that was where they would be kept He had written to the Traffic Area three weeks ago, notifying them of the change but his letter was returned with a request for £160.

Ashford said that was because operators now had to send the fee with the application.

Asked why he had not sought to vary his licence after the traffic examiner's visit, Chidgey said the council was re-locating him and he had been waiting until he got his new yard.

Revoking the licence, Ashford said he had no choice. Chidgey did not seem to have got themessage he was breaking the law. If Chidgey made a fresh application for a new operating centre, he could not guarantee what the result would be.


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