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it admitted taking a trailer to be scrapped when it was not covered by a test certificate.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, Chris Grace told Wantage magistrates that last November an artic comprising a 4x2 Mercedes tractor and a two-axied semi-trailer was stopped in a check at Marcham Road, Abingdon. The semitrailer's test certificate had expired the previous January.
For the company, Chris Butterfield said its operations were being moved from North Wham to Milton Park. In clearing out the yard, the company found the trailer. Its floor had rotted and it was decided to sell it for scrap.
The trailer was on its way to the scrap yard when the vehicle was stopped.
Butterfield pointed out that the trailer could have been moved perfectly legally if a test had been booked: it would have been exempt on its journey to the test station for the test, which it would certainly have failed, and then the return journey would also have been exem pt.
There was a further exemption in the regulations which covered a trailer being taken to be scrapped—but only if it dad previously failed a test.