No VED costs £2,000
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• The owner of a West Midlands haulage firm has been fined £2,000 with £65 costs by West Bromwich magistrates for VED and speed limiter offences.
Ursula Cope of Walsall Wood, trading as Copes Transport, admitted running a 30-tonne Scania with no excise licence and with a defective speed limiter.
Driver Stuart Williamson was not prosecuted.
Malcolm Seward, prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, said the offences were discovered at the Perry Barr lorry park, Birmingham, off the M6 in June. "The calibration on the speed limiter was 21 months overdue; the excise licence fee being £3,360," he said.
E Midland Building Products of Spartan Industrial Estate, Brickhouse Lane, Great Bridge, West Bromwich, was fined £ 150 with £65 costs at the same court after admitting using a goods vehicle without an 0-licence.
In a letter to the court the firm admitted it had hired the lorry from a haulage firm for the day to carry 7,400 pallets and, by mistake, had not obtained an 0-licence.