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• The Road Haulage Assodation has warned operators to beware
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of driving-licenc,e fraud, and to check HGV licences more frequently, after one of its members found that an employee had been driving without a licence for two months.
The Midlands-based haulier was carrying out a routine sixmonthly check of his driver's licences in June. One of the drivers failed to produce his licence, saying it had been lost or stolen and he was waiting for a new one to arrive.
in August the driver pro duced his licence, which showed he had received a two-month driving ban in October 2001 and had been driving his company's trucks for two months while he was disqualified. Mike Farmer, RHA regional director for the Midlands and the West, says this incident highlights the importance of checking licences regularly, especially as magistrates are handing out a lot of short bans.
"A ban may fall between six monthly checks and unless the driver tells his employer this, they would remain unaware of it," Farmer points out. "While it may not be practical to check licences every week we recommend that hauliers should do this every three months.
"II is not only a driver that can be prosecuted for not having a licence, but his employer for permitting him to run without one. Operators need to be able to ShOw due diligence in making earnest inspections," he adds.