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Carlisle haulier branded a danger to road safety
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mi Carlisle-based
LGH Logistics has lost its Operator's Licence and sole director Louise Goddard has been banned from the industry after being branded a danger to road safety.
North Western Traffic Commissioner Severely Bell disqualified Goddard for three years following a series of tachograph offences, and she plans to disqualify LGH transport manager John Goddard for a similar period.
The TO heard that an examination of the company's tachograph records revealed that 16 charts were missing: records seized by the police revealed 13 infringements by driver Barry Foams. When police examined Fearns vehicle following a road traffic accident they were unable to find a chart in the tachograph head.
Louise Goddard said that Fearns was no longer with the company as he had written off two vehicles. She added that he had previously had an accident in the Netherlands.
The TO said she was satisfied that if LGH was allowed to keep its licence there would be an unacceptable risk to road safety. The breaches were so serious that they went to the very heart of the company's suitability to hold a licence. The company's main officer, Louise Goddard, had shown that she was not a fit and proper person to hold an 0-licence.
John Goddard previously held a licence for 18 vehicles and 18 trailers. In July 1999 that licence had been curtailed to 15 vehicles and 15 trailers because of hours and tacho offences and the issue of prohibition notices. It was surrendered in October 1999 follow rig his bankruptcy