By Advertiser Reporter A TYRE fitter was caught driving on a bald tyre. Learner driver Marco Rodrigues, 22, who was stopped by police in Lincolnshire and Swindon, was fined £1,300 and banned from the roads for a year after he admitted driving without a licence or insurance, drink driving, driving on bald tyres and failing to appear before the court. Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard that police in Stamford, Lincolnshire, stopped a hired BMW in West Street just before midnight on September 19 last year. He initially gave false details before admitting his mistake. He was not insured to drive the car and only had a provisional licence.