Warning on drink/driving
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• North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Keith Waterworth has warned that professional drivers who are caught drink-driving will face harsher and harsher penalties He was speaking at a Leeds disciplinary inquiry when he told Bradford driver Michael Arron that if he committed a second drink-driving offence he would do his level best to exclude him from haulage for the rest of his working life.
Arron, of Spring
royd Terrace, Bradford, was called before the TC following convictions for drink-driving and driving without insurance.
He agreed that his 30-month disqualification did not come to an end until next January adding that he had been driving home when he was involved in a crash. He exchanged addresses with the other driver; the police later came to his home and said he had been drinking. . He was working for W J Robinson of Leeds at the time, and they had offered him his job back if his LGV licence was returned to him.
Drinking and driving did not go together, said the TC. It was a very serious offence and it beggared belief that someone should put both their job and future at risk.
Revoking Arron's LGV licence, Waterworth said it would be open to him to reapply next March.