Law FREIGHT
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Two last chance' warned
FOUR hgv drivers who had been convicted for driving with excess alcohol in the blood appeared before the Northern LA in Carlisle last week. All were successful in seeking reversal of decisions not to grant or renew hgv driving licences.
Mr C. M. Haslam, aged 30, of Lindisfarne Street, Carlisle, was said to have suffered jail and a ban from driving for three years in 1968 for driving while disqualified and with no insurance. In 1969 for driving while banned he was further disqualified. In 1973 he had an 18-month ban for drinking and driving; and four months after regaining his licence, in November 1974, he was convicted for speeding with a further six-month ban.
In mitigation, Haslam said he had a wife and two children to support and had been unemployed for six months.
The LA, Mr B. I Foster, commented that with such a record a prospective employer was likely to ask awkward questions. But he would be given one last chance.
Mr Donald Currie of Mar gery Street, Carlisle, had been disqualified for three years for drinking and driving in 1973; and had a three-year ban for the same offence in 1967.
Mr P. W. Pickles, defending, said both offences concerned private cars and had occurred during matrimonial upsets.
On appeal, his last disqualification had been reduced to two years and when the licence was returned Currie got a job driving but it lasted only a week as he then discovered that his hgv licence should have been surrendered on conviction and had been revoked. He had now been promised a job if he got his licence back.
Currie was also warned by the LA that this was his last chance.
Mr S. Masson of Station Villa, Abbeytown, Carlisle, had been refused a provisional licence and admitted convictions, for driving without due care, in 1974, and for drinking and driving in 1975.