£25 fine for forged hgv licence application
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• False declarations made in order to obtain an hgv driving licence led to a lorry driver being fined £25 with £6.40 costs in his absence by the Manchester City magistrates last week.
Prosecuting for the DoE, Mr D. Turner said Ian Wesley Crankshaw of Sheldon Place, Partington, Lancashire, had applied for an hgv licence supported by three certificates of driving experience and his application was granted. The prosecution alleged that two of the certificates had been altered and the third was forged.
Mr T. Hobson, traffic manager of Summerfield Transport Ltd, of Trafford Park, said that an entry in a Class 1 certificate claiming the defendant had driven for the company for a certain period of time, had not been made by the company.
Mr D. Pugh, traffic manager of G. Priestner Transport Ltd, of Carrington, said that the defendant had been employed by his company for two months and one week. The certificate, showing that Crankshaw had been employed for four months and one day, purportedly signed by him, had not in fact been completed by him nor was the signature his.
Mr Turner submitted that it could only be assumed that the defendant had completed the certificate and forged the signature.
Mr B. G. 1-Iadfield, a DoE traffic examiner, said he had interviewed the defendant. Crankshaw said: "I have nothing to say. You have got the facts wrong. I have been driving artics for 15 years, yet you are saying I have not got six months' experience". Mr Turner said the defendant had been convicted on hours and records offences at Altrincham in March 1971. These convictions were not revealed in his hgv licence application form.