Foreign-use vehicles not exempt
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• Fining British Road Services Ltd and Seabourne Shipping Co. £10 each last week, Saddleworth (West Riding) magistrates ruled that articulated trailers based in this country but operated for the majority of their time abroad could not be described as being temporarily in this country and were not, therefore, exempt from plating and testing regulations.
In February last year, said Mr A. Myson, prosecuting, a BRS tractive unit towing a Seabourne trailer was stopped at a roadside check and the trailer, manufactured in 1966, was found to be unplated. The defendants claimed that the trailer which spent most of its life abroad was exempt from the regulations but the prosecution maintained that this only applied to foreign owned vehicles.
Mr J. W. Bosomworth, for the defendants, said the regulations said nothing about only foreign vehicles being exempt. The magistrates found the offence proved but the chairman said they were satisfied that Seabourne had acted in good faith and only a nominal fine was imposed.