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Midas loses touch over convictions

4th April 1996, Page 19
4th April 1996
Page 19
Page 19, 4th April 1996 — Midas loses touch over convictions
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• The 0-licence held by Michael Greasley, trading as Midas Distribution, of Newbold Verdon, Leicester has been revoked by Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Brian Horner after a series of convictions. The DTC also suspended the LGV driving licences of Greasley, his wife Nicola and his mother-inlaw Michelle Troth, until the end of July.

Greasley was convicted at Winchester in March 1995 of failing to produce records, taking insufficient weekly rest, and failing to enter details on the centre field of tacho charts. He was fined £500 with £25 costs. Nicola Greasley was convicted at the same court of three offences of using a vehicle while uninsured, and Troth of aiding and abetting her. They were both fined a total of .£300 with £40 prosecution costs.

Greasley told the DTC the convictions had resulted from a clash of personalities with a police officer on a service area. The officer had gestured at him and he had gestured back. The records asked for had been mislaid. When he eventually produced them to the police in Leicestershire it was too late. The police officer had gone over his vehicle with a fine-toothed comb and everything had been in order. He had seized 97 tacho charts and out of those there was one without his full name and another which he had left in the tachograph until the following day when the vehicle was stationary As far as the weekly rest was concerned, he thought that

he had been 15 minutes over the allowed time.

After his vehicle had been broken into at his operating centre, his insurance had gone up by £1,000, which he could not afford, said Greasley. He asked his mother to arrange cheaper insurance, which she did but he had not realised it was limited to a named driver and not any driver as previously. His wife had been unaware she was not insured.

He was no longer operating, said Greasley he was working for another haulier as a driver. He indicated he wished to surrender his licence. A conviction for using a vehicle without an excise licence was due to a slip-up and all the back duty had been paid.

Troth said she would not knowingly have driven an uninsured vehicle. She was not married and her LGV licence was her only means of finance.

Horner said he was not prepared to accept the surrender of Greasley's 0-licence and was revoking it because of the convictions and that they had not been notified to the commissioner.


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