A Newport, Wales-based food company had its licence suspended for
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28 days after amassing fines totaling £13,750 for a range of offences.
Welsh Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Bourlet heard that Euro Foods UK had been convicted of overloading, hours and tachograph offences.
Several drivers who had been convicted of failing to take sufficient rest told the Deputy IC that they had not received any training from the company an drivers' hours or tachographs. They claimed to have been put under pressure by company bosses, some as far away as London, and claimed that their complaints to managers had fallen on deaf ears.
Former transport manager. and now depot manager, Mark Wall said he had passed on the drivers' concerns but he was told to carry on.
Traffic examiner Robert Frampton said a number of tachograph charts were missing, with sal 100,000km unaccounted for. The company also two immediate prohibitions during a fleet inspecti Suspending the licence, and refusing the cc pany's application to increase the authorisation fr eight to 15 vehicles, the Deputy TC concluded: "T company was within a whisker of revocation."
The drivers concerned had their LGV licences s pended for 14 days.