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Fines top f500 for company and driver operating artic with the wrong licence

8th December 2005
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A DEMOLITION FIRM that pleaded guilty to allowing a driver to operate a 40-tonne artic with the wrong driving licence has been fined E150 with £148 costs.

Finchley, London-based JD Demolition pleaded guilty before the Harlow magistrates to permitting Geoffrey Phipps of Dagenham, London to drive a vehicle without a licence.

Phipps pleaded guilty to driving the vehicle without a licence and was fined 05 with £175 costs, Anthony Ostrin, prosecuting for VOSA, said JD's vehicle had been stopped in a roadside check. Traffic examinerJeremiah Glecson had asked Phipps to produce his driving licence and noticed it did not include category C+E.

When the company's transport manager John Rochester was interviewed, he said he had taken a photocopy of Phipps' licence but had failed to notice the required categories were not on it.

Phipps said he had previously been disqualified and his licence had been returned to him by the DVLA. He assumed that categories to which he had been entitled to drive would have been included on that licence.

Phips said he did not notice the categories had not been included, and did not realise he was required to apply separately for them.

Appearing for the company Jeremy Fear said it had also assumed the original classifications would have been included automatically when the licence was returned by the DVLA.


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