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'Stolen tack,' haulier curbed
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Licence cut to single vehicle and trailer after driver who hid records is found guilty of string of offences, including tachograph falsification
A CHESHIRE-based international haulier, whose driver claimed his tachograph charts had been stolen, has had his licence cut from four vehicles and four trailers to one vehicle and one trailer.
Macclesfield-based David Stanier, trading as DHS European Haulage, had been called before the North Western Deputy Traffic Commissioner Patrick Mulvenna at a Kendal disciplinary inquiry.
Traffic examiner Peter Illsley said Stanier had telephoned to say that tachograph charts he had requested to be produced had been stolen when driver Geoffrey Grundy's car had been broken into at Hartshead Moor Service Area on his way to deliver them to the Traffic Area Office.
Several offences During Stanier's interview later, a number of charts revealed several offences by Grundy. He was subsequently prosecuted for five offences, including two of tachograph falsification, for which he was fined £475, with £300 costs.
Traffic examiner Chris Howorth said he had not believed the driver's statement about the circumstances of the theft.
Stanier said he did not know the truth either. He could not see any reason why the driver would want to hide any records as he was always encouraged to work within the law The firm had a regular run to Switzerland. The offences only came to light when timed fuel receipts were checked against the tachograph records; something they did not normally do. The tachograph records were regularly A The Theft of the charts had been a 'great shock" to checked and any discrepancies brought to the the company notice of the drivers.
The stolen tachograph charts had been a great shock to the company. It now wished to operate just one vehicle and trailer. The Swiss trip would no longer be viable once the 48-hour week was implemented.
The DTC was told that the driver had falsi fied charts to get home on a Saturday evening because he was having personal problems.The vehicle had not been needed back in the yard until Sunday afternoon.
After Stanier had said that the nominated transport manager had died and that they could have a new CPC holder in place within a week, the DTC said that unless there was written con firmation that that was so by the end of March the licence would be revoked.
The DTC said that a lack of proper proce dures to ensure compliance had led to signifi cant problems.•