Owner-driver who learnt h s lesson wins fresh 0-licent
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• A Dudley owner-driver whose licence was revoked last December was granted a h licence after saying he thought he had lea his lesson.
In December West Midland Deputy T affic Commissioner Alan Cattell revoked the licence held by De 'ck Landell, of School Street, Dudley following convictions for andling a stolen vehicle excise licence; the fraudulent use of a vehicle excise licence; the fraudulent use of an 0-licence id titv disc; using a vehicle without an 0-licence; and the use an unauthorised operating centre. Cattell had also taken acco t of a failure to declare those convictions and Landell's poor nk ntenance record. (CM January 4-10).
Landell told Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh t t a:1 the fines imposed had been paid off. His son was now going o do his paperwork. He was seeking a licence for two vehicle and planned to drive one himself, employing a driver for the her. They would be maintained every six weeks by a comm garage.
In reply to the Tc, Landell said he planned to start off vith just the one vehicle. Mervyn Pugh said that Landell must ; ise that if he fell by the wayside his licence would be revoked d he would be disqua fled for life.
Granting a ce with a condition that only one vehicl be specified for the ime being, Mervyn ugh said he hoped he was doing the right t Landell had been convicted of very se .ous offences but he had paid his debt to x...
ety. The hi hest standard of oper tion was required and Landell must ke sure that his v icle was always pro erly taxed and tested.