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OTC delays decision over tacho offences
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A BISHOP Auckland international haulier must wait to see what action North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Elizabeth Perrett will take against his licence for five vehicles and seven trailers after tachograph interrupter devices were found in two of the vehicles.
Traffic examiner Ray Jones discovered the interrupter switches in two vehicles operated by Andrew Batey. trading as FBT Intern anonal. Tachograph records and fuel receipts showed fuel withdrawals for which there were no corresponding tachograph records and there was missing mileage between the tachograph charts on either side of the receipts. There were also entries on weekly running sheets for which there were no corresponding tachograph records. The examiner was told some records had been destroyed in a flood.
Vehicle examiner Gordon Whittaker said the inspection period was six weeks, but intervals ranged from seven to 23 weeks. Since August 2005, 10 immediate and three delayed prohibitions, plus two refusals to clear, had been issued to Batey's vehicles and trailers.
Batey said his transport manager Jeffrey Cooper never visited the premises. Following the vehicle ex
aminer's visit he fell out with Cooper. He did not think he had been doing his job properly as he had not found any problems. Batey said he did not really check that Cooper was doing his job properly because of personal troubles. One of his drivers, Richard Peart, held a CPC and was going to take over as transport manager. He was undertaking another CPC course to bring him up to date.
Batey had not known about the switches in the vehicles and drivers had denied any knowledge of them. He had gone through a lot of casual drivers at the weekends. He thought a driver he had fallen out with might have fitted the devices.
The DTC is to issue her decision in writing at a future date.