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A bid for a one-vehicle restricted licence has been adjourned while the TC confirms that the applicant has permission to use his operating centre and has enough money in his bank account. Danny Boy Lock, a St Helens-based scrap dealer, was seeking a new restricted licence for his vehicle before North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe.

His former vehicle had been impounded in February. He said he had been using a lorry all his life and had never had an O-licence, although  he had never previously been stopped for this offence. He received nothing from Vosa for the impounded vehicle when it was sold for £2,600. After the DTC pointed out that when the vehicle was impounded it had a bald tyre, a leaking brake pipe, an inoperative indicator and an oil leak, Lock said it had been tested three months previously.

When asked whether the vehicle had been looked at in the three months since the MoT, Lock said new brake components had been put on. He now had a maintenance contract for his new wagon, which he had bought four weeks ago, to be looked at every 12 weeks. The DTC said a traffic examiner had reported that in February there were no proper tachograph records, the tachograph was unsealed and the vehicle was more than 40% overloaded.