1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180 
Bob Adamson now a key executive at TNT, started his
Page 58
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
career as a bobby on the beat with Lancashire Police. He was one of the
pioneers of teaching and enforcing tachograph laws for the police and had served for 25 years when TNT headhunted h4n to set up its own tachograph department.
Adamson was involved in the first crown court case for tachograph fraud, against a company at Preston Crown Court in 1986. The trial lasted 56 days and resulted in imprisonment for some of the defendants.
As a traffic officer, Adamson saw many colleagues move on from the police to jobs in transport, but was adamant he did not want a driving job. "I've seen too many fatal accidents to want to do that,' he says.
But nor did the tacho job at TNT last forever and Adamson moved on to supervise the company's insurance cover, which it now largely takes on itself. The only insurance TNT puts to an outside company is so-called "catastrophe" cover, for claims of more than £750,000.
Adamson has no regrets about moving from the poke to the private sector, even though he was clearly an outstanding policeman, being awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to road safety.