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Ex-truck breaker fined for false statements
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• After pleading guilty at Bradford magistrates' court last week to making a false statement in order to obtain an hgv licence, Mr John William Moulden, of Grangebrook Crescent, Bradford, was fined £12 with costs of £1.20.
Prosecuting for the Yorkshire LA, Mr R. E. Patterson, told the court that on June 25 of this year Mr Moulden applied for a Class I licence claiming that between February 2, 1969, and February 1, 1970, he had regularly driven two Class I articulated vehicles for a period amounting to six months. However, after certain inquiries had been made it was discovered that throughout the period stated on the application form the vehicle had been owned by a Leeds company.
In his evidence to the magistrate, Mr Moulden stated that because of unfamiliarity with the type of application he had asked a friend to fill in the application form on his behalf. He added that as he was at the time self-employed, purchasing heavy goods vehicles which he later sold for spare parts, he did not very often keep the vehicles for any length of time. He admitted that the vehicles in question had only been owned by him for a period of weeks but said that he had had driving experience on numerous other goods vehicles.
As Mr Moulden was unemployed at the time of the hearing the magistrates said that they were prepared to allow him to pay off the fine at £1 per week.