Ashford cuts RileyRead licence nlIc admits to disc deceit
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• Graham Read of Chewstoke, near Bristol, has appeared before former Western Licensing Authority Air Vice Marshal Ronald Ashford following a string of overloading convictions.
Read, trading as GJ Transport, held an international licence for one vehicle and trailer in possession, with two vehicles and trailers to be acquired.
After hearing of the steps taken by Read to avoid overloading problems in the future, Air Vice Marshal Ashford curtailed the licence by one vehicle and trailer. • Liverpoolbased haulier
AAPhilip Riley, trading as LP Roadways, has pleaded guilty to handling and forging a stolen vehicle excise licence and other offences before Widnes magistrates. He will be sentenced in November.
Riley admitted using an Operator's Licence identity disc with intent to deceive, two offences of using a vehicle without an Operator's Licence, one of handling a stolen vehicle excise licence, two of using a vehicle without an excise licence, and one of forging an excise licence.
Prosecuting for the Department of Transport, Richard Green said that a vehicle driven by Riley was seen going into a Transworld Travel depot by a traffic examiner; the excise licence had been over-written. A second vehicle belonging to Riley was subsequently seen to enter the depot; an expired vehicle licence and an interim Operator's Licence disc in the name of Wheel Excavation and Plant Hire were displayed in the windscreen.
When interviewed, Riley admitted to operating for a few months without applying for an Operator's Licence, saying that he had only just employed a CPC holder. Questioned about the excise licences, Riley said that he had heard of someone who was selling them and he gave him £100 for a blank disc. Riley had acquired the second vehicle some months earlier but it needed working on. It had only been on the road for a week and the interim licence disc was on the vehicle when he acquired it.
Green said that the excise licences were from a batch stolen from a post office in Wimborne, Dorset.
For Riley, Lawrence Lee said that he had been in business for three years. The offences were committed when he was going through a bad patch and he was unable to afford to pay the vehicle excise duty. All the forgery really amounted to was filling in a blank licence disc. He stressed Riley was now running "100% legal", The magistrates have adjourned the case until November so that social enquiry reports can be obtained.