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Licences suspended over hours and tacho offences
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A father and son working for Midland Quarry Products have Had their Operator's and HGV 1[canoes suspended for two and four weeks respectively.
Ian Page and his father Robert were called before the West Midland Traffic Commissioner David Dixon at a Birmingham disciplinary inquiry to answer charges of drivers' hours and tachograph offences.
Ian Page, who hods a licence for one vehicle, had been convicted of seven tachograph offences and one of attempting to pervert the course of justice. He was ordered to complete 180 hours community service and to pay £1,000 costs. His father, who holds a two-vehicle licence, had been convicted of one offence of falsification and of failing to produce tachograph records, being fined £600 and 11,500 costs.
Traffic examiner Nicholas Wust said that an examination of tachograph charts for 2001 revealed some charts in the name of Ian Page's partner Maxine Hopkins; others, in the name of Peter Harper, appeared to be in Page's handwriting. Hopkins had claimed that the charts were hers to protect Page.
Two charts in the name of John Hurley showed him to be driving two vehicles at the same time—one belonging to Ian Page, and the other to his father.
an Page admitted he had taken insufficient rest on occasions but some days he did little driving and had loads of rest.
Maxine Hopkins said she had been unaware that she could not drive the truck after working all day in an office.
Robert Page said the traffic examiner had only collected the one vehicle's charts. The weighbridge operators often put the wrong names on the tickets. The ticket showed that he was driving that day but he knew he hadn't as it was his son's birthday. He pleaded not guilty to both offences before the magistrates.
Suspending the licences, the IC said that Ian Page had used other peoples' names to hide the fact he was working too many hours. His father should have known that what he was doing was wrong.
The IC issued Hopkins with a warning.