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A Yorkshire operator who was caught displaying a false 0-licence

5th April 2001, Page 15
5th April 2001
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Page 15, 5th April 2001 — A Yorkshire operator who was caught displaying a false 0-licence
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disc has lo t his licence and has been disqualified from holding or obtaining an 0-licence for four months.

In February the one-vehicle licence held by Scisset-based Andrew Beaver, trading as Euro Star, was suspended for seven days by North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe. A subsequent maintenance investigation prompted suspicions that a second vehicle had been operated.

Beaver admitted that he had acquired a second vehicle in December 1999. He claimed he had been in the process of making a licence application but there had been problems with the newspaper advertisement.

Beaver claimed that the sec ond vehicle had been used mainly for storage but admitted using it for about four weeks when his other vehicle was off the road. He said he had never run both vehicles at the same time.

Odometer readings showed a difference of 170,000kmBeaver said the tachograph head had been replaced twice.

Questioned about displaying a false 0-licence disc in the second vehicle, Beaver accepted that someone had forged it but added: "it wasn't me. I wouldn't try and forge anything like that—I would not have made a disc to deceive anyone. I'm not that daft" For Beaver, Gary Hodgson said he did not accept that the vehicle had been used as intensively as the odometer readings on the inspection sheets suggested. Beaver had nothing to gain by disputing the mileage he had admitted the unauff rised use of the vehicle.

Hodgson added that Beav had operated for nine yea without any previous problen The Deputy TC concludE "It is as plain as a pikestaff tf Mr Beaver did operate the h, vehicles concurrently" I found it "staggering" if Beav was unaware of the false di;


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