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Maintenance issues lead to disqualification
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MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS and late reporting of a conviction for dangerous driving has led to the revocation of the licence that was held by Norwich-based Matthew Howe.
The Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner, Mary Kane, disqualified him from holding an 0-licence for 12 months.
In addition, thc DTC also refused an application for a new licence by Base Line Sports International, of which Howes was the sole director. The DTC said that in the application for the new licence, Howes had declared a conviction for dangerous driving in 2007, when he was given a nine-month prison sentence, disqualified from driving for two years and ordered to take an extended test.
That was some three months after the date of the conviction.
Evidence was also given by a vehicle examiner that Howes had been unable to produce 15 months' maintenance records, that there was no forward-planning system, that stated inspection periods were not being adhered to, and that no-one had been notified that a change of maintenance contractor had taken place.
Howes' vehicle had failed its annual test for cab security, indicator/hazard lights and secondary brake performance.
The landlord of the operating centre had said that the vehicle had not been parked there for some time because they had fallen out over an insurance problem.
The DTC stated that these were serious matters and that they were compounded by the fact that Howes was not honest with Vosa, nor did he keep the TC informed of what had been happening.