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TC takes account of firm's remedial action on hours
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DONCASTER-BASLD M<rans UK has escaped with a warning over breaches of the hours and tachograph rules because it had done much to correct things before being called to public inquiry. The company, which holds a three-vehicle licence, had been called before North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry.
Traffic examiner Stephen Foster said an analysis of 26 of the company's tachograph charts revealed a number of offences by director Michael Buttery. Short distances were unaccounted for: he had taken insufficient daily rest on three occasions and had exceeded 4.5 hours driving without the required break, also on three occasions.
Foster felt that eight offences out of 26 charts was excessive. Buttery had also been convicted of falsifying a tachograph record after being stopped by the police in January; for that offence he had been fined £750 with £35 costs. Part time transport manager Alison Stead said only one vehicle was operated at the time. She had agreed to act as transport manager until MD Lorraine St Hillaire obtained her own CPC.
Stead had checked a sample of tachograph charts by eye on a monthly basis. She only had time to have a quick look at the January charts until they were taken by VOSA but she had never seen any indication of falsification.
The RHA had been booked to carry out a training seminar on hours and tachographs the following week and was analysing every tachograph chart, though the company planned to obtain the necessary software and handle the analysis in-house.
Buttery said he had thought he had a good understanding of the hours rules but it turned out that it had not been good enough. He had falsified the tachograph record to try and keep the customer happy. If he was stupid enough to do it again he would resign.